Baden-Powell stood up before very big audience of young fellows end started on an address which was in no way different to hundreds that have been delivered to young People in that splendid institute. Sech things are bad for young to ignore the wrong and to concen trate on the vight, and, moreover, it was such a plan that would compel youngsters to do the right thing without knowing more than they were having a rattling vod time themselves, save for the ultra-studious who always want to know the why and the wherefore, There, Baden-Powell showed him. self to be a reformer far removed from the majority, for it has ever been a dull business to be just good by determination.
The Small Boy Ci lit Well, there was "cop; that, and the next morning every news Paper in the country made it a feature, and, though the papers did not adopt it as a speciality in the wanner the "Daily Mail" and cthers would nowadays, the idem cuvgbt on from the beginning. No tone needs to be told to. what a mighty size the movement has ate tained, and no one can conceive of riy happening which would cause 1 to fade away.~ One is puzzled to know what there was about the ial effort which attracted the svanil boy. Take him in general ard he loathes vidieule or being made conspicuous, he hates parading, in large bodies, and he abhors organized games, except national games such as" cricket, football, age ball, ete, Baden-Powell made his boys un-pecially, with the Colonial" hat, vhich serves no purpose in Great Rritain, but, curiously enough, the boy for once did not seem to mind. The suggestion is offered that, though his parents had gotten Mafeking, the small, boy had not, To him, Baden-Powell was still the outstanding figure in the South African war, and there to be idolised and. copied, Also there was the great attraction "messing about.". Could. any roperly constituted. British boy— ame than ing for timber to make the fire, and doing a hundred and one things calculated to blacken his face and hands?
Thus has Baden-Powell captured the youth of the world—in just one unheralded speech—and, by: invent= ing for them a multitude of theat-cal boys' amusements which peal to them, he keeps them tother, and, as part of the code, he them to do methodically and almost unconsciously a myriad things whic for their good, physically. ly.
Baden-Powell ig the counterpart ish Army's "P.T." Swed and all regular' physical exercises are deadly dull for all except the crank and the enthusiast. "P.T." is a system of "mucking in doing which men have a from seriousness and y go through the movements of scientific physical training, THe of Public Commissioner.
Sufety for Greater Shanghai has issued an order instructing. his suh~ ordinates to suppress all kiutls of obscene literature, A scheme has been drawn up by the Railw:
Ministry "of for through teaffie_ arrangements between the—Shanghai-Hangehow-Ningpo, Shanghai-Nanking, Tien" tein-Pukow and Peking-Mukden Lines which the Government proposes lamp ut into Jarre on August next, Quickly Banish the
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