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Show HELP INVALIDS TO FORGET Presence of a Canary or Goldfish in the Sickroom Invariably Has Beneficial Effect. Next time you sit in a room, the furnishings of which Include a bowl of goldfish, consider how much time you spend watching the small fish as they swim slowly about or dart about in pursuit of each other. Probably you will conclude you were Indulging the usual tendency of the normal person to be attracted to moving objects. In sick persons and convalescents this tendency Is more pronounced, and in the aged and very young It Is still more so. That psychology of this attraction was given by Dr. Edward N. Leavy, formerly veterinarian to the animals in Central park zoo. He Is now connected con-nected with a Fifth avenue pet store. "Sick persons lying in bed spend a great deal of time watching the goldfish gold-fish if an aquarium Is In their room," he said. "It takes their minds off their pains and aches and is very beneficial." ben-eficial." Canaries share with goldfish the honor of being the chief animate entertainment en-tertainment to the sick. New York Sun. One isn't troubled much by the laws against violence if he isn't troublesome. The Wrong Foot. From a telegram recently received by the district superintendent of ar Indian railway from a Bnbu station master: "Coming on duty early in the morning clad in my new and white uniform uni-form I perceived a man seated on a box in a naked and aggressive manner. Taking him to be an ordinary passenger, pas-senger, I proceeded to slap him, whereupon where-upon lie hastily arose, unlocked the said box, clad himself in a policeman's uniform be took thereout and arrested me. The shoe is thus situated on the erroneous peddle. Please arrange." London Morning Post National Emblems. The rose, England's national flower, was chosen as the country's symbol at the close of the War of the Roses. The shamrock is firmly imbedded in Irish hearts because St. Patrick used it to Illustrate one of his sermons. The thistle was adopted as the national na-tional emblem of Scotland because, in the reign of Malcolm II, a moat filled with thistles saved a Scotch fortress fort-ress from Danish invasion, A Forgotten Art In New York's streets there may be counted hundreds of signs that read "Watchmaker." Yet perhaps less than a dozen of such concerns could make a watch. The crooked path Is longest. |
