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-lperftdale Secondary School
lperftdale Secondary School Oxford Local Results, to following are the results of the erndale Secondary School pupils at the cent Oxford Local Examinations — ltSenior.-D. J. Maidment, Second Class jOfiours; S. J. Jeremy, Beatrice Vowles, *T 5*"fifths, and M. A. Jacob, Pass, unior.—Pa«s F.dwin Edwards, I). D. aTl,rSajlj Emrys Rees, John Ivor James, Th? rtin Davies- fj-p.i-f a'>ove successes reflect considerable a„ °n headmaster (Mr. G. Childs, and staff.
Boy Scouts Movement.
Boy Scouts Movement. Troop to be Formed at Treorchy. At the New Boys' School, Treorchy, on Tuesday evening, a meeting representa- tive of Treorchy, Cwmparc and Ynyswen was held to discuss the promotion of the Boy Scouts movement in the ishict. Mr. Wm, Jenkins, J.P. (agent to the Ocean Coal Company), presiding, said he was thoroughly in sympathy with the movement, and would render it every pos- sible assistance (cheers). Mr. T. W. Berry (Director of Educa- tion) addressed the meeting on the moral worth of an organisation of Boy Scouts, which must be unsectarian, and which would develop the ehara-cter of boys into true manliness. Mr. Berry pointed out that the movement was military only in so far as they were fighting for a better standard of boyhood and manhood, physi- cally, mentally and morally. It was a movement which demanded that the boys should possess unsullied characters, smart decorum, and general usefulness in the interests of their fellow-beings. They were to honour God and King, and be ready at all times to help otherig. Mr. Howell Howells (Treorchy Schools) said lie attached much importance to the movement. The habit of smoking cigar- ettes among boys, lie said, was on the decrease. lie did not think there was a single boy at the Treorchy School in these days who smoked (cheers). Some time ago, they, instituted a crusade against smoking, and the boys freely pledged their names to it. Now and again, boys were not abiding by their promise, and information would be given him (Mr. Howells) or the teacher, and they were dealing in the best manner with the cases, Mr. Owen (Ynyswen Schools) expressed sympathy with the movement, the pio- motion of which he would like to see effected forthwith. They had many "grown-ups," but few" men," and he was pleased that this movement was going to teach the boys. to love and study Nature. Mr. O. M. Edwards-, proceeded Mr. Owen, said of the Ancient Britons that they could not read nor write, but they knew all the songs of the birds, &e. How many lads," asked Mr. Owen, in these days know the songs of the birds? How much do they know about birds' eggs and nests, and how much do they respect the same ? Mr. Gilbert Jones (Trealaw), organising secretary of the movement, then explained the formalities to be gone through by in- tending Boy Scouts and Scoutmasters, and later the following; representative committee was appointed —President, Mr. Wm. Jenkins, Ystradfechan; Dr. Barrett, Dr. Armstrong, Councillors W. P. Thomas and Tom Jones, Mr. W. H. Owen, Mr. H. Howells, Mr Edwin W. Davies (Park Schools), Mr. Humphrey Prosser, Mr. W. H. Bevan, Mr. Watkin Jones, ,ZI.E and Mr. Roderick Morgan. Mr. Humphrey Prosser was appointed to convene the first committee meeting, whereat an executive committee and secretary shall be appointed, and other necessary preliminaries discussed. On the motion of Mr. Gilbert Jones, seconded by Mr. T. W. Berry, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded the chair- man. During the evening, the Cwmparc organisation (Mr. Haydn Evans), Treher- bert, and one or two others were drawn up in one bodyguard in the lower portion 9 of the schoolroom, many of them wearing "their uniforms. At the close of the,, meet- ing, the Scouts and their Masters suitably saluted the organising secretary, who re- sponded en passant.
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.-=====-- Ithondda County School, Porth. The following' are among the successes bi former pupils at the University this Pugli (Cwmparc), B.Sc. with Second Class Honours in Chemistry; feline B.A. with Second Class Honours in English; Bessie Trotman, ,A. with Third Class Honours in Eng- Hoyden. Richards, B.A. with Third Yjdass Honours in History; Edmund i^omas (three years at the school), First 'j,iass Honours in .Latin. Mary Jenkins, ?-A., hag finished her course of training r?r Secondary teaching at Cherwel] Hall, xforu, John Llewellyn, B.A., Cam- vidge} Teacher'*s Diploma.
WiSfrTAK0QTH * X Wl <- " £.
WiSfrTAK0QTH X Wl <- £. "How did Tom manage to get so much of his uncle's estate?" He married his lawyer's only daughter." "What a bright baby! Can he talk?" "Yes'm; he can say 'Thanks' when you put a penny in his hand." Judge: Will you tell the jury all you know about the case?" Miss Jabber: "Yes, if they can spare the time." Office-hoy: "Here's a lady what insists on seein' you! She's awful excited." Editor: "Then escort her to the composing-room." Phyllis: "Have you ever been disappointed in love?" Doris: "Yes; twice." Phyllis: "How's that?" Doris: "Been married twice! Jones: "Pretty girl-you seem to know her." Brown: Yes; she's my manicurist." Jones: "Ah, a divinity who shapes your ends! "Pa, have you been up much in airships?" No, never. Why do you ask? I heard nle. tell auntie you were once quite a high flyer." Lodger: "I shall have to owe you my rent this week." Landlady: "That's what you said last week." Lodger: "Well, didn't I keep my word?" I see you Have only one chair in the kitchen, Mary. I must get another one for you." "Y ou needn't mind, ma'am. I have none but gentle- men callers." Lady: "My cooking always tastes so good to you, and it never suits my husband at all." Beggar: Well, why don't you get a divorce and marry me? Miss Bright," whispered Miss Gaussip. can you keep a secret? Yee," replied Miss' I Bright, also whispering-. "I can keep one as well as you can." Teacher (angrily): Why don't you answer the question, Bobby?" His brother Tommy (an- swering for him): Please, sir, he's got a pep- permint in his speech." "I have no luck," complained Mrs. De Style, "at bridge. I seldom win." "it is a poor game," responded her rival, if one has to de- pend entirely upon luck." Chum: "Why don't you assert your authority as head of the family and take matters in your own hands?"—Head of the House (mournfully): My wife won't let me." Jack: "Why is an impecunious duke like a chessplayer?" — Jim: "Give it up." — Jack: Why, because one aims to pawn his castle, and the other to castle his pawn." Considerate Motorist: "I'm awfully sorry I knocked you down; 110pe you're not hurt. Now. what can I give you? Yokel: Well, zur, w much do 'ee generally give ?'' "You are not interested in family trees?" "No," replied Miss Cayenne; "so many of them remind me of these continual announce- ments that the fruit crop is a failure." Fred: "There seems to be a lot more fuss made of Ethel's singing than Mary's, and I'm sure Miss Mary has by far the richer voice." Ned: "But Ethel has the richer father." Customer: "You guarantee it will grow a.' thick moustoche in six weeks' time. Well, what's the price?" Barber: "This size 2s., or 5s. the large bottle, which will last you for years! "I am sorry,my dear sir,but I neglected to bring my surgical instruments with me." "That will be all right, doctor. The plumber who has been working in the cellar has left his tools there." My heart is in my mouth. I am afraid to hear-you .answer." "You may well be. Mr. Dolllboy," retorted Ethel. "I never could marrv a man whose heart wae not in the right place." Mrs. Klubbs (severely): "I've been ivinlr awake three hours waiting for you to come, home." Mr. Klubbs (ruefully): "And I've been staying away three hours waiting for you to go to sleep." Kind Old Lady (talking to a tramp): Have you never made an effort to get work? Tramp: "Yes, ma'am. Last month I got work for two members of my family, but neither of them would take it." Why did you break your engagement with that school-teacher?" asked the friend. "If I failed to show up at her house every evening, she expected me to bring a written excuse signed by my mother." "I married my first husband for money and my second for love." "Tlwn you are" very happy now, I suppose?" "No, I am not. You see, my first husband married me for love, and my second for money." Mrs. Newly wed: "Oh! mother, John said this -s morning I was one woman in a hundred." Her Mother: "I see in that no cause for tears." Mrs. Newlywed: "But, mother, he used to say I was one woman in a thousand." Lionel: "You are charming to-night." "In- deed! "What nice things you men say. Mr. Brown just told me the same thing." Lionel (anxious to depreciate his rival): Of course, ¡' you don't believe he meant it! Daughter: Mamma, my teacher was talking about synonyms to-day. What is a synonym?" Mother: "A synonym, darling, is a word you can use in place of another when you do not know how to spell the other one." Scottish Cabby (explaining historic landmarks* of Edinburgh to American tourist): Yon's the house of John Knox." Tourist: Wal, who- this John Knox, any way?" Cabby (shocked); "Mon! Do ye read yer Bible?" Hostess: "Why didn't you bring Captain Splasher with you?" Captain Poison: "Duty, Mrs. Clutterbuck. We couldn't both get away, so we tossed up for it." Hostess: "And you ,.Von ? Captain Poison No, I lost I
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——— — j WINCHESTER. i "That joly cite, good and wel-y-set," as some fifteenth-century verses describe it, played a leading part in our rough island story in those early centuries wlien England was in the making. The Rev. Telford Varlev, in his "Winchester" (Black), says the his- tory of the city is still writ large there. He reminds us that: Her, Saxon Alfred ruled and prayed and wrought; here Danish Criiit took the golaen crown from his brow and laid it in token of humility upon the Holy Altar; here Norman William wore-his crown yearly at Easfceitiae-y here curfew'first was pealed, and here ever »mce it nae continued to.peal.; ftere Jttutus w.as. buried, "many looking on and few grieving"; hera j Henry I. ruled and earned the title of the Lion of Justice" here John received the Papal absolution, having sunk the English crown to a lower depth than any other Sovereign could or would have done; here was founded the great college of William Wykeham, whose motto Manners- makyth man "—has served as an inspiration for genèrations of public schoolboys for over 500 years; here Henry VIII. welcomed and feted; the puissant Emperor and second Charlemagne, Charles V.; here James 1. kept his Court, and here Raleigh received his shame- ful condemnation and sentence; here with alter- nate fortune Cavalier and Roundhead strove to. gether, till Cromwell himself captured its cita- del and razed its fortifications to the ground.
IHINTS FOR THE HOME, I-
I HINTS FOR THE HOME, I ONE DANGER OF MODERN FICTION. Speaking of the characteristics of modern fiction, a writer in the Girl's Own Paper calls attention to the danger of the present tendency to encourage an excess of introspec- tion. I have known girls ruin their happi- ness by getting into a morbid state of self- analysis I have known others within an ace of doing so. And I am sure the introspective fiction of the present day, unwisely regarded, has much to answer for in such cases. It is well known to be undesirable for a healthy person to pore over medical books. He will I probably come to the conclusion that he has -n, some of the alarming symptoms described. The same danger lurks in the excessive devo- tion to fiction where each motive, each im- perceptible shade of feeling, is skilfully and carefully analysed. The more clever the book the greater is the risk of ill-effect, unless com- mon sense be called to the rescue." A LOVER'S WEDDING-CAKE. Four pounds of flour of love, ha.lf a pound of buttered youth, lafif a of good looks, half a pound of sweet temper, half a pound of self-forgetfulness, half a pound of powdered wits, half an ounce of dry humour, two table- spoonfuls of sweet argument, half a pint of rippling laughter, half a wineglassful of com- mon sense. Then put the flour of love, good looks, and sweet temper into a well-furnished house. Beat the butter of youth to a. cream. Mix together blindness of faults, self-forget- fulness, powdered wits, dry humour into sweet argument, then add them to the above. Pour in gently-rippling laughter and common sense. Work it together until all is well mixed, then bake gently for ever. THE HARMLESS, NECESSARY CAT. The house cat is an established institution, and, like kissing, is unlikely to go out of general fashion for the sake of hygienic con- siderations. It should, nevertheless, be re- membered that cats are great carriers of dis- ease, and that where there are children a cer- tain amount of precaution should be taken. From the time of the kitten stage puss should never be allowed to jump on tables, more especially the kitchen table. Cats can be trained by prohibition as well as human beings if their owners begin early enough and have patience and persistence. Cats should never be allowed amongst food, so that there can be the least danger of licking it or walk- ing over surfaces where food may be laid. Never allow a cat to go into the larder, how- ever well trained it is against stealing. A cook who is fond of cats is often quite hope- lessly incorrigible in this matter. Another rule which a mother should make is that cats should never be allowed in a nur- sery or in a sick room. It is often the cat who spreads influenza and colds throughout a house. Cats love the warmth of a bed or a child's cot; and more than one unhappy babe has been smothered to death by a pet cat curl- ing up on its little breast for warmth and making it impossible for the helpless babe either to breathe (ir cry. II TO PRESERVE RASPBERRIES WHOLE. Place the raspberries in one layer upon a dish and screen with crushed fine lump sugar double the weight of the fruit. Bruise some ripe raspberries, and put them in a jug with some sugar, and set the jug in a kettle of water covered close. Allow them to boil in the water until soft, then strain through some muslin into a pan, boil, skim, and when cold put in the whole raspberries and set them over the fire until quite hot. Take them off and let them stand until cold. Set them on again and make them warmer, and do this several times until the fruit is clear, but do not allow them to boil. Put them into jelly jars and fill them up with the jelly. Cover closelv-,iid store in a dry place.
BREAKFAST DISHES.I
BREAKFAST DISHES. Now that bacon has attaiped a sometimes pro- hibitive price it is well to realise, says a writer in the Daily Neics, that excellent breakfast dishes, can be prepared without it; they will en- tail some additional work, but few housewives will grudge the time or labour for making the first meal of the day more attractive, and cooks often welcome a change from the perpetual fry- ing and toasting. BEEF ROLL.—This consists of equal portions of finely-minced beef (steak or joint will do), either or cooked, and breadcrumbs. To every pound of the mixture allow a dessertspoonful of fresh butter, a couple of tablespoonfuls of veal stuffing, and a large egg or two small ones. Roll the ingredients out together several times, until a suitably amalgamated paste is produced, adding more butter if it seems dry. Roll up into tho shape of a German sausage, tie it in a 1 and boil for from twenty minutes to three- of an hour. LKY FINGERs.-Make some toast, and cut it into strips, six inches long and two inches broad. Coat these both sides with fresh drip- ping and place them on a tin in a warm but not overheated oven for a few minutes. When they are removed sprinkle them thickly with pre- viously chopped parsley, then spread potted tongue on each finger, and close them sandwich fashion. Trim the edges if necessary, garnish the dish with slices -of hard-boiled egg to be eaten with the fingers, serving these just warm. A change can be gained by using a little pow- dered sage stuffing instead of parsley, and spreading" with cold minced duck, or rabbit. THREE FLAVOUR PIES are delicious and quite novel. The pastry is prepared and put into natty-tins, but three layers of filling are ar- ranged before the upper paste is put on. Potted or minced game is generally the foundation, then cold pickled pork, finally mushrooms or .omato FIPH BEAWX.—This is a combination of meat iish. as the jolly consists of veal stock, to Is I vr, little gelatine can be added to ensure -■ff:.e-- Haddock the fish generally used, • I into small flakes, after being boiled. pT.ev. nuggets of hard-boiled egg, ..soiling of nutmeg, make up a delicious whole. he ingrodients having been already cooked, it only necessary to make tHe whole hot, then t into an ornamental mould, from which it -n omargs in attractive form, and very cleai, en cold. JELLY.—Cut up one pound of lean veal ,nd let it simmer for half an hour in white B. ock. well seasoned. Dissolve a small quantity leaf gelatine to solidify the stock, and pour the whole into a mould, adding small pieces of lean cooked ham, slices of hard-boiled egg, and little parsley. This will make a pretty dish when turned out, and may be garished with the hearts of lettuce and slices of cucumber. Mayon- W sauce is a welcome addition.
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SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS.
SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS. HELIUM FROM VESUVIUS. Helium, the "sun metal," thus named be- cause it was found by spectroscopic observa- tion in the sun before it was known to exist on the earth, appears to exist in perceptible quantities in a number of minerals exuded from Vesuvius, and also in the air about Naples. Professor A. Piutti has examined by a new method the gas emitted by several Vesuvian mineral,s, and finds that helium is often present. He has detected its presence in so small a quantity of ordinary air as three and ahalf cubic centimetres. HOW FROST KILLS PLANTS. The Swedish botanist Lidfors has pro- posed a new theory to explain the killing action of frost on plants, as well as the fact that certain plants escape damage when others are destroyed. He observed that snell plants as cerastium and viola, which survive the severe winters of Sweden, have the starch in their leaves replaced during the cold season by sugar. He then found that in plants which do not possess this peculiarity ice is formed in the interspaces between the cells, and the water is withdrawal from the cell sap. When the water is extracted the proteins in the cells pass out of solution with disastrous effects. But if sugar is present the proteins remain in solution until a much lower temperature is reached. CANDLE-POWER OF SUN AND STARS. Mr. Nordmann, who has estimated the light and heat of the sun and the stars by a new method, has presented to the Paris Academy of Sciences some interesting figures concern- ing the intrinsic luminosity of those bodies. He shows that the light of the sun is equal, for each square centimetre of its surface (there are about two and a-half centimetres in an inch), to the combined light of 319,000 standard candles. But there are other suns intrinsically much brighter than ours. Vega and Sirius possess, for each square centimetre of their surfaces, the luminosity of no less than 6,000,000 candles. On the other hand, the luminosity of the great reddish star Alde- baran is equivalent to only 22,000 candles per square centimetre, and that of the small star Rho Persei to no more than 4,000 candles. MOSQUITO-EATING FISH. In a. communication to the Field Mr. Savage English gives to a species of Tas- manian fish a weighty testimonial as a de- stroyer of the larvae of the mosquito. Mr. English has himself employed it for two summers to destroy mosquitoes in a tank where he grows water-lilies, and he testifies that it does its work well. In fact, he finds that if one be left with an unlimited supply of larvae it will over-eat and kill itself. The fish in question is known in Tasmania as the native trout," though in size, colour, ancl habits it more nearly resembles a minnow. It goes about in shoals, frequenting the quieter parts of rivers and backwaters, and forms one of the chief items in the diet of the trout proper, introduced from this country. Small as it is, the native trout goes perio- dically to the sea. Scientifically it is known as galaxias attenuatus. Mr. English advises the introduction of the T asm am an native trout to those districts where mosquitoes the introduction of the Tasmanian native trout to those districts where mosquitoes are known to be disease carriers. EROSIVE POWER OF DUSTY STEAM. The Scientific American notes an interest- ing case of the erosive power of the dust- laden steam from a locomotive. This was ob- served on a railway bridge at Boston, U.S. This bridge was only 15ft. above the track which it spanned, and so within a foot or so of the mouth of the locomotive smokestack. The steel beams of the floor of the bridge were completely enclosed in thick plates of lead, while the webs and flanges were pro- tected by hollow tiles. In the course of ten years the blasts from the passing engines have eaten through the lower faces of the tiles, and cut out large pieces of lead com- pletely. Whole sections of both lead and tiles have fallen to the ground. In bridges of three feet additional height thi-s erosive effect is found to be less, THE COLDEST REGION OF THE AIR. The decrease in the temperature of the air with increasing altit-Lide -exemplified in the fact that the top of a mountain is colder than its base—is a matter of common know- ledge. It is a fact that occasional inversions of this distribution of temperature may occur —as when fruit-trees in a valley bottom are nipped by a frost that does not touch the hill- tops but it remains true in general that the temperature of the air decreases upward, and that the air at great altitudes is extremely cold as compared with that at the surface of the earth. Until Teisserenc do Bort an. nounced his discovery of the isothermal layer, eight years ago, it was not suspected, says a writer in the Scientific American, that this decrease of temperature DID NOT EXTEND UPWARD to the limits of the atmosphere. Now, how- ever, we know that at a certain altitude, averaging in middle latitudes about 11,000 metres (seven miles), the fall in tempera- ture with increasing altitude ceases rather abruptly, usually giving place to a rise of temperature for a certain distance upward, above which the temperature remains ap- proximately constant as far as the highest ascents of sounding balloons have carried thermometrxc apparatus. Hence above any given spot on the earth's surface the air is coldest just below the region of the upper in- version, which marks the beginning of the isothermal layer (or, as it is now called by its discoverer, the stratosphere "). The alti- tude of the isothermal layer VARIES WITH THE BAROMETRIC PRESSURE at. the earth's surface with the season, and especially with the latitude. It is somewhat less over the Poles than over middle lati- tudes, and very much greater over Equatorial regions than anywhere else in the world. la other words, the decrease of temperature with altitude continues to a much greater, height within the Tropic than elsewhere, and this explains the fact that the lowest tempera- ture ever registered in the atmosphere was met with almost exactly over the Equator- viz., -84-3deg. Cen. t-119'7deg. Fahr.), s-t an altitude of 19,300 metres (about twelvo. miles) at Shirati, on Victoria Nvanza, August 30th, 1908. This was one of the many inter- esting results of the remarkable series of sounding-balloon ascensions executed in Equa- torial Africa by the expedition under Beson and Elias, sent out by the Royal Observatory of Lindenberg, the complete report of which has been published by the observatory How the henpeekea 9J&B do§» ms. S?»SB Kfi » il?Z hoaaa.