Show ATHLETIC DEVOTIONS gymnastic exercises that impressed the kurdish villagers everything is liable to be stood even gymnastic exercises exerciser this truth was brought homo home to george U hepworth II epworth and he tells his experience in through armenia on clorse horseback ba ek 11 the author was stopping lu in a kurdish li village and the inn possessed but one general living room in the morning I 1 began my regular gyana gymnastics stooping until my finger touched the floor door throwing my arms about like ille the spokes of a A wheel heel striking out from the shoulder and going through all the exercises none of which I 1 ever omitted I 1 would gladly have taken esponge baab but it would have been impossible to get enough water A Is enough to suffice a turk well I 1 got under way with my exercises when I 1 saw that my audience was excited conversation dropped into a whisper then ceased word passed from one to another and oue one by one the occupants of the room quietly left I 1 feared that they were offended all and wanted to call them back and apolo gize just then my dragoman entered laughing what want has happened I 1 rie lie laughed the harder as he replied the kurds burds think you are practicing devotional religious exercises and they retired under the impression that you would regard their presence as an intrusion invisible indians all indians seem to hae baie learned a wonderful way of walling walking unseen making themselves nelves invisible like tain spiders which in case cane of alarm caused for example by a bird alighting on the bush their webs are spread upon immediately bounce themselves up and down on oil their elastic threads so rapidly that only a blur Is visible the wild indian power of escaping observation even where there Is little or no cover to hide in was probably acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach gante game take enemies by surprise or get safely away when compelled to retreat and this experience transmitted through many gener generations atlon seems at length to hae become what Is vaguely called lii instinct john muir melr in ill atlanter Atlant lr the ground around notre darve dame the ancient and beautiful cathedral ft notre dame in paris looks as it if it t bad sunk lu in the ground other ancient churches give the same impression the fact Is of course that thi the ground has risen around the buildings the accumulation of cen centuries of dep deposits oits for instance it is certain that notre dame stood originally many feet higher above the streets round than nowadays and that a flight of steps led up lip to tho the porch which Is now alm almost 0 s t on a level with will the place du panis pan Is notre dame the general effect of the building as the sightseer approaches 1 it t erad hd evl evi dently thus been much al altered t sine medieval times pirates and strategy the virtuous island of sark was not always so ho when edward ill III was waa king salk saik was a haunt of pirates and wreckers sir A conan doyle in sir nigel tells how they lived not the island but from what they can gather upon the sea around it they are broken folk from all countries justice fliers prison breakers escaped bondsmen murderers and staff breakers who have made their way vay to this outland place and hold it against all comers the merL merchants hants of t rye bye and Win winchelsea chelsea fitted out an expedition against those scourge urges S of the he narrow sells seas A landing was obtained by strategy leave was obtained to bury a supposititious dead sailor on the island the burying party to come unarmed but that apparent coffin was filled with weapons and so was ivas sark cleansed of its en evil 11 inhabit ints london standard spoiled an fn in the the making behold when a man on a trolley car removed his hl hat the other day little willie wlllie observed that be was bald yea very bald for not it a single hirsute rambler trailed over his bis shining pate but when it came to whiskers the bald party was right there with the lilacs ile ho had whiskers in bundles whiskers in stacks in fact he had bad enough wi to start a rat factory and aid male make a fortune say mamma finally remarked willie turning to his mother just look at that man there hush dear returned mamma no ile will hear bear you the matter with him everything Is the matter with him replied the youngster when the angels made him they put his head on upside down P philadelphia ladelphia bi telegraph A field at home A boston gentleman was showing a west african who pi is interested in missionary work a number of photographs pa clial a is this asked the visitor gazing in wonder at one of them oh a snapshot taken during a football oot ball scrimmage at the stadium but has your church no missionaries aries to send among these people was the quick rejoinder boston transcript cruikshanks long artistic life in 1863 cruikshank was asked by the comm committee attee who exhibited his worship of bacchus to associate with that work some of his early drawings in order to prove brove that he be was not his own grandfather Ches sons caulk cruikshank an example Kli snicker feker tiler they say sar that in 2 00 years niagara farn will stop flowing M mrs rs knicker that makes me hope III plumber will get our leak fixed yet narp erB TI bazar one bitter better first weve got a baby crand in our house bouse second ditto we can KD go you vin one better weve it got a grand ball in ours oura amer lean promoted beginning to im ant it on airs nars Is ahat ii 0 11 T tei their 14 now low 8 la audre sa s1 doroit iree pre |