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Darwinian Theory
yn terror to suppose 11 "ecu
Accepted by Scientific Men.
Cy L H. Star key.
DWARD DOBSON assumes that "the evolutionary doctrine is
no longer debatable except in minor v- .
It fs an odd thing that the "evolutionary doctnne by
which is probably meant the hypothesis of ge nejc evol on
by natural selection), which may be called Darwin an
theory, is popularly supposed to be finally accepted by the
6016 Thereufd be no graver error. Natural selection is at
. . .thocio with a minimum, of scientific evi-
dence and a maximum of more or less ingenious but loose and unscientific
rea9JoSf Girard says, speaking of Darwinism: "In spite of ji ft name 'It.
success has throughout been popular rather than scientific and as t me went
on it has lost ground among the class most qualified to judge. Eyolut lonists
there are in plenty, but very few genuine Darwinists, and among thes can by
no means be reckoned all who adopt the title for not a few of "JJ
Romanes and Weissman, profess doctrines which cannot be reconciled witn
those of Darwin himself." ' . . nrerv-
Professor Huxley, an ardent exponent of Darwinism, could not unresoiT
edly accept the theory, and a score or more of sc ientific men of the Art rank
could be named who "reject Darwinism altogether or admit it only with fatal
"""ThaitSher forms of organic life have been evolved from lower is not dis
puted, but that all organic life has been so developed genetical y from sub
stantially the same form of germ plasm is very fn
fact. .Apart from biological research, which cannot b- cone lusive a e have
to guide us are the fragmentary records of paleontology, which, when critically
examined ceitainly do not help the affirmative very much.
U is rot possible without encroaching seriously upon your space to show
the many o'scles to the acceptance of the theory in quest on b ,t e neraUy
sneaking the fossil records of organic life are fertile with evidences autaso
S?o the hypothesis of genetic evolution, -fZlTlt be
support it is conspicuous at every turning po tat bj its abs ence be
. . . ? i,motmti nf its advocates. As M. iraDie says
ESS X that in truth we know nothin
aout arvthin- as far as ultimate truths are concerned, scientmcany
ertfnSts a riddle to which human curiosity can find no answer. Hy
SSUta tie ruins of theories are piled one on another; but truth ever es
S S To am how to remain in ignorance may well be the final lesson
of wisdom."
13
The Reasoning Powers of
Animals
Il.lHiffli
DIET OF WOMAN WHO SMOKES.
A London physician asserts that
cigarette smoking is increasing
among women to such an extent as
n hn rauslne a change in their dtet.
They now want spiced and highly
seasoned dishes where they used to
take creams and ices. New York
tribune.
SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.
Queen Eleonore of Bulgaria is
planning to ..open a school for her
blind subiects similar to the one of
the Queen of Roumania, In Buchar
est. She is described as a very be
nevolent woman and deeply Interested
in everything that promises amuse
ment or comfort for the blind.
HOME ECONOMIES.
Miss Dora Eaton, of the depart-
mpnt. of home economics of Mills Col
lege, California, has been elected su
perintendent ,bf the women s dormi
tory at Ohio State University, mere
is Just now quite a demand for young
women in colleges who are equipped
fnr such nositions with a working
knowledge of the science of home eco
nomics.
LIBERTY TO WOMEN.
Siam has recently passed a law
giving women the right to vote in
certain cases. While this may seem
aa extraordinary step for an Oriental
neonle the Siamese women them
selves explain that it is the teaching
of Buddhism. They point out that
Buddhism preaches the equality of
the sexes and give's equal education
to boys and girls.
card in capital letters, underscored:
"Please don't touch."
None there were so unkind or bo
curious who would blow a breath on
these little blocks of wood or jar the
table by a3 much as a finger touch.
They knew the secret. That puzzle
was not finished.
On the steamers coming home from
Europe the passengers were at the
wnrv mnst nf the time. All the ta
bles available were used for puzzles,
and the most careless steward learned
not to dust tables on which lay unfin
ished puzzles. -
These jig-sawed puzzles were in
vented by a New England girl some
tiniA hpfore Christmas. She cut out
the tiny blocks with a jig saw, and
that gave the name to the original
mj5-7lP55. First the block ot wooa
was painted exactly after a famous
picture, but to make the game more
difficult no copy of the picture is soia
with the puzzle.
At once Boston took up the pas
time and made it the fashionable in
door sport of New England. As soon
as summer began the resorts rrom
Bar Harbor to Atlantic Beach caught
the enthusiasm. By this time four
firms were making this girl's jig-saw
puzzles in an eighth of the time and
therefore sold them at a much small
er price.
. By August the thing was in full
swing, and even the ocean liners had
to Buy them by the dozens to satisfy
the demand. Outgoing and incoming
passengers carried a jig-saw puzzle In J
every grip.
Those who have been bitten by the
madness have gone in for making
their own puzzles. Clever men and
women have bought jig saws and are
turning out these puzzles slowly for
the amusement of their own crowd.
It is said this part of the game is aa
THE NEXT MORNING.
Bobbie says he is growing to be a man;
But 1 think he is dreadfully low.
Father marked it up on the wall iaot night,
Just how tall he was. Do you know
That he hasn't grown, not the tiniest bit?
For, as soon as we got out of bed,
We tried, and just where it was last night
Was the mark, right on top of his hed.
Margaret Erskine.
BLESSINGS.
She was the daughter of the village
; vnriTw riii-lo1 rlnrnntr nf
six, whose big blue eyes rested on the fascinating as the matching of the
w I
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EyJtlbertF. Shore,
TAamkor arterican JJssociaiion for Mdvancement
of Science. yrsU
HILF I do not discredit the reasoning power or eiepnams ui
beavers, however limited it may be, it does not demand ex
pert observation to decide positively that at least animals of
feline genus and some other carnivorous ones, as for in
stance the bear, are wholly destitute of reason. Why? In
Central Park, New York, the reason is engraved in not only
hard cement, but in the nose of a cinnamon bear. This ani
mal is fenced in, but he can easily see freedom outside, and
he has long ago made up hie mind to secure nis uee
waiving outside of this cruel inclosure. Seeing that the broad side of the
fence would bar him, the bear made for the front corner; but seeing this
corner impregnable, he naturally turned toward the other unexp Jored cor ner
quite undaunted. Of course, he is again disappointed, but since the first dis
appointment was forgotten by the shock of the second, he hopefully gam
returns to the.said first corner, and so on, hour after hour, days, weeks and
year after year. Lions, tigers, leopards, etc., do exactly as does this bear,
but I will say of this particular bear, that although he has worn deep holes in
the cement floor in both corners of alternate hope and despair, his nose has
become worn br his systematic swing of the head in spurning these really
hopeless corners of escape. There is as yet no clear impression on the mind
of this bear that his long search for freedom is really hopeless. But this un
daunted bear can be convinced, as by cutting off his view of freedom without,
and it would also teach us a lesson that the difference between simple intui-
What little reason exists in animals is so feeble, that the slightest intui
tive activity on their part will easily hypnotize their reasoning powei.
a kv ,o Tr.r.r.kpv or the parrot, and still more so by small chil-
wt hprmiRfl thev have a larger brain area may become so extensive
that almost all the product of reasoning minds may be faithfully memorized
and imitated, although the minds engaged never themselves ever reason ex
cept to a negligible degree.
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ii tji.cmI nmir!i Sfit what is called a
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sponge over night, just as for bread. Use a pint of warm
water and a large half-cupful of yeast. When the mixture
is light add half a cupful of butter or sweet lard, a large cup
of sugar, a teaspoonful of salt dissolved in water, one table
spoonful of cinnamon and a pinch of nutmeg. Stir in two
beaten eggs, add flour until sufficiently stiff, knead it well
s,nd set away to rise. Then roll the dough out into half-inch
thickness and cut into any forms desirable. The twist Is
pretty. Drop into hot lard, being sure to have quits a deep
vessel of lard, as the turning of the cakes is liable to spatter
up in the gas.
face of the Sunday-scnooi teacner
with an attention and intelligence
most encouraging.
So when, after a discourse to the
children on the beauty of appreciat
ing their blessings, the teacher asked
for an explanation of a blessing the
doctor's little daughter rose and said:
"If my papa was to have a patient
and she was to get well, and she was
te pay my papa, and my papa was to
ghe the money to my mamma, and
my mamma was, to buy me a new
dress and take me down to the vacant
lot and let me ride the great big
fierce lion on the merry-tr-round,
that would be a blessing.'
Home Companion.
pieces, but there are not many who
can do it. .
The shops are delighted with thl3
sudden and spreading craze for the
puzzles, for tb.ey sell them at excel
lent prices anywhere from fifty
cents to $3. -
Among the most popular pictures
that are being matched together by
pieces of wood ,are "The Field Offi
cer," which most people are familiar
with, as it is the well known picture
by Detaille, the war correspondent;
tho "Wild West," "Mohammedan
Scouts," "Girl With Apples," "In
Holland," "The Pilots," "Hans,"
Woman's I "The Fruit Girl," "Love Letters" and
the "Christy Girl. JNewiorit nines.
The Brain and Drugs
Ey Dr. William Hanna Thomson.
O sensible person believes that drugs do not affect the brain,
and yet this doctrine seems to fit in with so many facts
that some clear demonstration of its fallacy is much need
ed. It is the physician who should be asked what he has
to say on the subject, because naturally he is the one best
qualified to know whatever is known about both drugs and
brain. Moreover, lately he has made great discoveries
about the relations of the brain to the mind by observa
tions, which he alone could make, of the effects of local in
juries to brain matter caused by disease or by accident.
But how different the facts about these two subjects are from what
most people imagine he shows by saying that drugs no more affect the brain
than insanity does that is, not at all! except alcohol, which does injure the
brain, though not at all cn account of its mental effects, but for the very dif
ferent reason that alcohol ha3 a chemical affinity for the albumen and fats of
the tissues. By this chemical action it slowly alters and damages brain tis
sue, but this result in no wise differs from similar alterations produced by
alcchol in the tissues of the liver and of the kidne5rs. Tobacco is a powerful
poison, and yet no autopsies can show the least difference between the brain
of a life-long tmoker and that of one who never lit a cigar. Likewise, the
fcrain of an 'opium field is indistinguishable from any other brain, and so on
for the rest. Everybody's Magazine.
Spirit of New Japan
Ey George Trumbull Ladd $2
T has hitherto been uniquely characteristic of the New Japan
J f that, where experience at home or criticism from abroad
has revealed denciencies and aiincumes it cas gone intelli
gently and deliberately about the work of supplying the de
ficiencies and of overcoming the difficulties. The fear of
th? wisest and best of her statesmen at the present time is
not so much that Japan v.'ill not hold her own, businesswise,
in the rivalries of commerce and trade; it is rather that
shft will b overwhelmed and dpsradrd bv ahsorbine the in
fluences of the commercial spirit now rife in Great Britain, America and Ger
many. To safeguard, expand, elevate and extend to the whole nation, with
Its varid classes, that spirit, which has characterized in the past their own
best types of manhood, is with them tht-lr chief concern. The Century.
AUTOMOBILE VEIL.
An automobile veil just imported
from Paris had the new psacock
tones formed in a novel way that was
immediately copied by the Girl Who
Could Do Things.
Two long veils, one a vivid emer
ald green, the other a bright navy
blue, were joined together by the
hem, which was hemstitched to the
upper part.
The green chiffon was underneath
and the blue on top, giving a charming-
shimmery blue green tone that
was enhanced by the upper part, be
ing two separate veils that could be
Taupe is the ruling shade in hats.
The fur felt hat is coming again to
its own. - ' . "
Nearly all winter tones show a
short waisted effect. .
Washable fabrics are first choice
for children's wear.
Crepe de chine is one of the princi
pal fabrics of the year.
The big Pierrot rufSe has complete-
quite pulled apart. The hem had the fly fallen from grace at all the smart
green folded on the inside of the ! watering places abroad.
blue,
row,
Time:
The ends were finished in nar-
separate hems. New York
THE JIG-SAW PUZZLE.
A girl who doesn't spend half her
playtime in matching jig-saw puzzles
is certainly out of touch with the
times. There are few fashions In
Huge mercury wings, bowknots
and enormous flowers are among the
new garnitures for the coiffure.
Fashion authorities declare that
the high pompadour is doomed, and
that side puffs, with a parted front
and low knot $ the back, will coma
in its place.
A long, empire stole Is made up of
games which have taken such a grip three rows of long ostrich barbs, sep-
upon the public
You all know about it, of course?
It is an elaboration of the oid-fash-ioned
puzzle block3 of childhood
days. The matching of them is as
hard to the grown-up girl as the sim
arated by marabout and with long
tab ends of the same kind and lined
with marabout.
High colors are taboo. There Is a
softness and richness about the entire
range of fashionable hues which is in-
pie little blocks were to her baby in- tensified by the rich materials ia
millet. Wllita mejr ayyai .
Tnotrsarl nf hpinf mf In cniirirfis nnrl : . v j ,.it t.
"-j- v. " o 1 vu siiauea ui jeiiuvv uie lasuiuu-
easy angles they are cut out by a jig- atle, particularly the brilliant, trans
saw Into tiny pieces that take on i narent ones. Black' Is and will be
every curve Known to geometry.
Everywhere you go, to a dinner,
for an afternoon in the country, to a
hotel, on a steamer, it matters not
where, if you don't play puzzles you
are bshind the times and you are
quickly counted out.
It makes little difference how well
you may talk or sing, play the piano
or dance. You are not wanted for
those amusements. The rest of the
world is matching blocks, and you
must either do it or sit alone.
How any one can help doing it is a
juestion. It is the most fascinating,
irritating, time-compelling pastime of
the day. At summer hotels you could
sea little tables all around the se
cluded corners over which were bent
the heads of five or six people, or the
tables, when deserted, bore the pla-
imraehsely popular. Combined wita
the new dusky blue it Is most lovely.
Filet band embroideries are shown
in numbers for trimmings. Perhaps
I the greatest novelty is the square-
meshed string filet, which is coarse
indeed, and is embroidered in coarse
crewels.
The newest material to enter the
field of millinery is cashmere, the
newest trimmings soutache and kin
dred braids, silk crepes and similar
satin-finish fabrics, which lend them
selves gracefully to draping.
Swanskins are the new idea of Pa
risian modistes not only for covering
crowns of hats, but also for making
the entire hat. They are natural
skins, tanned, and some are used in
; boa effects for banding purposes,
WHEN TODDLES WAS A FAIRY. ,
"Come, Tottle, le's go Into the yard
an play fairy!" cried Toddles to his
little sister. The morning was warm
and bright, Just like summer, though
it was the first of October. Every
where the' leaves were turning red
and yellow and brown, painting the
landscape to look just like a great
autumn picture in the parlor of Tod
dles' and Tottie's home.
"Who'll be fairy this time?" asked
Tottie, gay in the happy anticipation
of playing a game dear to her and
her brother. "Who'll be fairy,
bruver?"
"I'll be fairy, Tottie, for the las'
time we played you was fairy, an'
you got upon the carriage shed for
the clouds. I'll climb up the elm
tree what has all the limbs a-growing
out o Its sides. It's so easy to
climb."
"All right," agreed Tottie. And
away the two ran into the big fenced
back yard, where there were a great
many splendid trees of spreading
limbs, just the sort of place for the
game of "fairy."
"Now, I'll lie down on this bed of
leaves," said Tottie, dropping on the
ground, which was strewn with leaves
of brilliant colors that had fallen
from the trees. "An I'll play I'm a
poor lady what Is very, very sick, an'
lying In a hovel. An I'll play my lit
tle boy and girl have goned to their
grandmother's for some bread to keep
me from starving, an' that a great
wolf meets them on the road an' is
about to eat 'em up when you who's
the fairy comes flying from th
clouds an tells me of my little chil-
dern's danger. You touch me with a
wand and it makes me well, an' I
jump up an' get Into a chariot what
3-ouve brought wif you, an' away we
fly like the win' and save my chil
dern."
"Oh, yes,'that'll be lots of fun!"
declared Toddles. Then he climbed
Into the tree that Tottie had lain
down under, the elm tree with the
many low-growing branches. Once
perched on a spreading limb about
six feet from the ground Toddles
said: "I'm all ready now, Tottie
Le's begin."
"Well, I'll play I'm calling to my
little boy an girl. Come, Ethel Grace
an' Harry James, mamma wants a
drink of water!- Oh, what? are my
dear chil-dern goned? Oh, what will
I do? I'm so very, very 111!" And
Tottie stretched herself and moaned
as if lying on a bed of sickness. "Oh,
my chll-dern! What will become of
them? S'pose a wolf should catch
them and eat them up? Oh, what can
I do to save them!"
Again Tottie groaned aloud and
turned on her bed of leaves.
"Now play I heard you and, am
coming," called Toddie3 from above.
"All right," said Tottie, In a very
healthy voice.
"Ah, good woman, here am I,"
called Toddles in a high falsetto
voice. "I can save thou and you little
chil-dern. They are now being fol
lowed by a great wolf what means to
de-vour them, clothes and all, even to
their hair."
"Oh, oh, oh, good fairy, save my
little chll-dern!" wailed Tottie in a
very weak voice.
"Oh, you oughn't to have called me
a fairy yet, for you aren't s'posed to
know who I am till I tell you," cried
Toddles impatiently. "Now, play 'at
you don't know who I am. Just play
'at you call out and ask me."
"Oh, all right, bruver." said Tottie.
Then-she assumed her weak voice
again: "Oh, kind person, who are
you?"
"I'm a fairy from the clouds," ex
plained Toddles in the high falsetto
voice. "And if thou will go with me
we can overtake your little chil-dern
before the wolf gets them."
"But I am so ill that I can't rise
from my bed of rags," said Tottie,
writhing as if in pain.
"Ah, I'll make you well," said
Toddles, pulling a little sprig from
the tree bough to use as a wand. "I'll
wave my wand over you and make
you strong again. Here! One, two,
three! " And Toddles waved the little
branch above Tottie's head. But. in
his eagnerness to wave it well as he
thought a real fairy would do were
she waving a wand the little fellow
leant too far out from the bough sup
porting him and lost hi3 balance.
Down he fell with a bump on the
ground below that made him give
forth a shriek like a Comanche In
dian. Tofctle, hearing the noise of his fall
ing, leaped up In time to save her
self from being in the way of his
fall, and stood laughing at the poor
fairy whose wings had failed in their
duty.
, "Oh, you looked so funny, bruver!"
said Tottie, between laughs.
"Well, you needn't giggle over it,"
said Toddles, sittirg up and rubbing
his bruised head. "It didn't feel good
to fall like that. If ttt9 Umis hadn't
a-caught mo as I came down I might
ave broke my arm or maybe my legr
or something. But if you're going to
giggle I won't play any more. I'll let
the wolf eat up your little chil-dern,.
so I will. And Toddies got up in a
very Indignant frame ot mind and.
shook the dry leaves and dust from
his head and clothes.
"Oh, I'll not giggle any more,"
promisad Tottie, coming to her
brother's side and helping to dust him
off. "Come, le's keep on playin' till
we've . got my little chll-dern away
from the big wolf. An' if we don't
hurry up about it we'll be too late."
"All right," said Toddles, again In
a good humor. "Play 'at I m down.
from the clouds already, an' that
you're well and that we've got into-
my chariot what Is pulled through
the clouds by elk and are off for the
woods where your little chll-dern are-
being followed by the wolf."
Then, with Tottie beside him, hold-
ing to his arm, Teddies called to his
elk to be off, and away they ran, pre
tending the chariot was carrying:
.them like the wind through the air
And just as they had rescued the little-
T)lay children from the big play wolf"
they heard their mother's voice call
ing to them: "Come, dearies, Freddie
and Mary are here to play with you
for an hour. Come, you may serve
luncheon to them on the lawn."
Then the chariot, the elk, the fairy
and even the two little children were-
forgotten, and Toddles and Tottie ran
in the house as fast as they could go
to greet their little playfellows
Freddy and Mary, who had come
from across the street to pay thent
visit. Washington Star.
SELF-SACRIFICE OF CHINESE:
CHILDREN.
One of the teachers, Mrs. Chang,,
had promised to take he? little girl to
Pekin in vacation to visit her older
sister; one can imagine the child's
excitement at the prospect of her first
railroad journey and first sight oj
wonderful Pekin. A few days before
vacation she came to her mother and
said: "If you will send tho monej
it would take for my railroad fare to
Pekin and back to the famine suffer
ers I'll stay in the school and you ga
alone." And the child cheerfully
stayed two weeks . with the schoof
cook and two or three other children,.
Surely that was an "offering of f
sweet smelling savor."
That reminds me of a little eacrl
flee on the part of the school as 3
whole. Sunday afternoon I ha3
spoken of the famine, but did not in
any way suggest that the girls con
tribute. That' evening a deputeAon
came to my study, saying that all rk$,
girls would like to give up white flour
and meat until vacation and send tha
money saved to the famine sufferers,
The time was about three weeks, the;
saving amounted to $12 (Mexican);
and I sent that sum, increased by ?16
from the teachers. Grace Newton, ia
Woman's Work.
A BQY'S IDEA.
It wa3 a little boy, a little English!
boy, in whose brain the first idea of
the safety pin was born. His fathe
being a blacksmith and not very richi
the boy had to act as nursemaid to
his baby brother. The baby often
cried, and his small nurse, noticing
that the cries were generally caused
by pin3 that pricked, triad to bend
the pins so that they would do theii
work without puncturing the child.
The plan was not an immediate
success, but the boy's father, seeing
the worth of the idea, set to work and
ultimately turned out the safety pin,
New York Tribune.
CONFIDENT OF THE FUTURE. '
Mary, five years old, and Stella,
who was about the same age, were
talking about their future dreams.
"When I grow up," said Mary,
"I'm going to be a school teacher."
"Well, I'm going to be a mother
with four children," said Stella.
"Well, when they come to my school
I'm going to whip them, whip them,
whip them!"
"You mean thing!" said Stella, aa
the tears came into her eye3. "What
have my poor children ever done tc
you?" -Delineator. ,
THE POLITE BOY.
James was going home from school
one day with some other big boys.
He saw an old woman with a large
basket in her hand. James gave her
hi3 arm and helped her across the
crowded street. The other boys
laughed at him and asked him how
much she paid him for his services.
"Her' pleasant smile and grateful
'Thank you' were worth more to me
than money," said James.
The boys who laughed at him were
so ashamed they'said no more. Jen
nie Kane, in the Brooklyn Eagle.
An Elastic Compliment.
Could anything exceed the polite
ness of the Irish cabby? An old
lady called for a cab and said to the
driver: ,
"Help me to get in, my good man,
for I'm a very old lady, you see."
"Begorrah, ma'am," was his reply,
"no matter what age ye r -- "
look it." Tit-Bits "