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rld’s Home Magazine, Tuesday Evening, November 7, 1905. 'How the Cost of Living Has Risen in Five Years. r Not Forgotten. Cc By Ferninand G. Long. No, 68 to 63 Park Row, New srk Pitehed by tho Press Publishing Company, a H Second-Class Mall Matter Entered at the Post-Omfice at New York —_—__——- VOLUME 46... oe voveee ee The Child and the Way He Should Go. Little Odin Adolp! as, the six-year-old hero of a local true story in the Sunday World Maga- zine, differs from the usual child other OCTOBE T HE Rureau of Labor has just {asued a report dealing with the retaj! petvee SUN | MON] TUE [WED | THUR] F E |v of food from 18M to 199, and showing the enormous increase in the enat life, Especially great has been this tnerease since the beginning of the new century of necessaries of n these ways, amor He has never heard of a God, ¢ : nside of a chu prayer, He has never tasted cooked food His diet con rult, eggs k and nuts ts of uncooked cereals, had heard of Santa Claus and tales, but does not believe {ve storles are his favorites e Slocum victims in the When he was four years old he was taken to see th 5 Morgue to “harden” him, | Of thirty prinotpal articles the prices of no fewer than twenty-six were higher last year than the average for the ten- year period, 1890-1899. The few that have decreased {n cost were evaporated ap ples, vinegar, coffee and prunes. Bacon Increased 87.9 per cent.; eggs, 8 per cent; dry or pickled pork, %8 per cent; fresh pork, 24 per cent.; com meal, 21.6 per cent. and potatoes, 21.3 per cent. Chickens. once within reach of nearly all, had risen 2.7 per cent, fn p flour lad advanced 19.9 per cent ham, 184 per cent.; lard, 17.8 per fresh beef, from 128 to 184 per c itter, 9 per cent; milk, 6.3 per c While the purchasing power of a dollar in the provision market has shrunk, wages have increased some- what, and the hours of labor are silght- ly less of recent yea but these ad vantages are not yet proportionate to the Increased cost of living, as shown by the report of Secretary Wilson, Transportation and distribution, rather than the cost of production, appear to be the principal factors In establishing the increas in prices, says the Philudels phia North American, from which the diagrams are roproduced For the United States, taken as a whole, the average cost of food per family In 18% was $18 In 189, the He has never been to school, but can read as well as any child of ten years. He operates a typewriter, He does not care for toys, but turns to invention; has Invented a nut-cracker to run by electricity. } He could swing from a horizontal bar when he was ten months old, and fitts a fifty-pound dumb-bell now with ease with one hand, 4 One of his first toys was a human skull, He understands the anatomy of the human body as the ordinary child understands the contents of its first Noah's Ark This boy’s father and mother are bringing him up ona theory They | belleve they are following nature. } 1 The method of little Odin’s education Is this: When he shows any speclal interest or inclination for any subject or study his father sends for the best teacher on that subject in New York, ‘and the child gets the fullest instruction, until he tires of it. Presumably if he were to ask questions on religious topics they fwould be discussed with him like any others, Now, precocious children are not rare, Viola Oelrich, 2 Counc! Bluffs (la.) wonder ofa few years ago, knew the human skeleton at twenty-three months, could draw before that, and at three } years and two months could read English, German and French, She, too was Hf taught by a father with a system, i Norbert Weiner, of Cambridge, Mass., studied Latin at five, having then read i English two years, and was mentally prepared for Harvard at ten. He is a normal i boy, likes marbles, and 1s home-taught, { Historically, John Stuart Mill could read Greek at four or five years, He learned under his father’s strict rule. i Dr. William Everett, the famous Quincy (Mass,) schoolmaster, was fit for Har- vard at twelve, Inquiry as to 287 gentuses in art, sclence, literature and philosophy shows | that 80 per cent, of them have given distinct promise before the age of twenty. H Precocity, however, is often associated with nervous troubles. It } was so with Edward VI. of England. 1} Master Thomas's carefully cultured strength, like Master Weiner’s love of marbles, suggests that back of the unusual is the normal physi- cal boy. Which is very well, indeed, i} While little Odin is being brought up and educated on a “nature’| a —— ¥ theory, Master Freeman Lincoln Meinertz, of Brooklyn, aged thirty- L t f th Pp ‘ y two months, is being raised by strictly scientific rules, and the ro et ers rom t C eople w w Answers to Questions children, one a girl, of Prof, Elmer Gates, of Chevy Chase, are being| advice to “Would-Be-Masher.” | the use of "two," “too” and “to,” 7 trained by machinery, | it Capt. Meinertz is ministering to his boy's mind only by providing | Bo bao beso Ih this country Ox yte 8 two it him with a sound body, Little Freeman lives chiefly on harley, oat. |2%4, hasnt met o girl yet We year of lowest and in 194 of the pertoa, 17 per cent,, As a proof « e ‘ost has Mpped down and up dur Aftoen years the following annual av ages for %(47 families will prove of tne terest In 190 the average family expenditu for food was $18.0; In 18M, $22.15; In 8, $324.41; In 1894, $900,815 in 1897, 1800, $900.19; tn 190), $314.16 1 nh 1008, $842.75; In 10M, $347.10 Produ of food supplies,” Wilson {s quoted as saying ence, he predicts lower pr! Leen decidedly heavier this year In conse ing the coming winter for meats, poultr a nk all the seats t Contrast them wh Opera Land situation would be dela Hanah ) amusing, Howeyer, real life, it oks e3| The other says: "We are two to two Slaughter of Song Birds. pa i y pees Hie an tapnsdied (2 to 2 aleo), One of the seconds, No won- > sen son to : {Thy Evening World college to get an educathn. The son, It N | Can nothing be done to prevent the seems, squande at sandbag | to Introduce you to one and it that w# |deir the Engl Mm s0:0nT t0| snererul illing of the fobine and | that Nlencerice’ tie ih okan ee roe ae imposatble try to acquainted |{earn! Just Uke a cornet—too, & ann yp t A in chasing a 4 associa. | toot.” G . 1, The father dema his eo Prof. Gates has apparatus to cultivate quickness of thought and | ‘hroush your datty associa. | toot W. G. PLA. F, ¢ wor, THA Feseldent tums: down Cok ry tions, If you meet your {deal and are s he ™ t ~ . ne ee pd nery Ag lena yg P sight. | talking t her try to talk to her es) apts \ ean sine ne are not be interfered with, It seems, for w the tn and lets the boy go on wasting “4 ‘ “ wales “ oF tn wal A ase aid ee ie fe ne Y r. am Tea y be for a child is a broad question, |!ms ## you can, and if you continuo! “In answer ty SC whe asks, “Why {IRE arrest the wrong man rpallege Pan mea Coulee The thing which never changes, be theories what t thie several times tell he, if you wear t ssTICR, | sate of etal i ma Ne Say ihe JUSTICE, | state of affairs | tight of the cid never to be scared out of his nowt, Goat co of| 2a, Smureee, it not, write her _ stidnontion ev Comte Opera (108 Tam alm “his self-respect, or cheated by overstudy or overwork out of the devel. | feelings and that will protab rad that the father oP one oF bourne | opment that comes only with play. j@bout the desired result. I am ts bia's football players has written. to ” t's tus too, that the world would be the loser if, in place of an Ngatloae SEIBON: and with at of Colmbla Univer “hfidist n we know, were infant rodigies A Frenchman's Dilemma. | girl faces im to allow the son to : > Claws, no fatry dreams and no paper dolls, pene B NO Santa |no ene Ratt of Tre Reenne, Wort Ligased f andito atts loans dia |S ‘ork papers. Where Ip anewer to Kia Hon" concerning | modern ferryboats ¢ ull, ‘Tho President, I read, re- | Agee 0 ra his opponent: ‘We are two to two.” | days we had mi |a tip for him: The best way to meet | too meal, white bread and crackers, and exercises with dumb-bells and a|@ si! is to get some gentleman friend ther song binds | cannot the men of the pres sombrero and H. 8. GRADISON, Jr. On File at Astor Library, 1 my chris- T know ft _ THE FURTHER HISTORY OF #@ # #8 #8 wo @ BY H.RIDER HAGGARD 77] Sih. WH O-M US i fie BE.- OBE VE 9). Author Pere “Allan Quatermaln “King Solomon’s Mines,”’ Se, } 1904, tm Oreat Britain and the | fates by i. Hider Magears.) | a ig Aecigg A ato. ina | eee a ee area ey ay : riner atl shes 4 seem. cate Litt Man ut 3 NT ilyen nd ia waiting for lin In Bi usroes the Thivet mountal | ‘across eee mountains they come to the ania, or Queen, of Kaloon, | palit we wih to "aah by Be THe" mi uncle mbri, the Shamon (magician), gah to him. | But Leo igarning that yeaha rules fa bigh priestess of thi Qeored mountain beyond Kaloon, remains true to his olf love. Holly belleves Atene the reincarnation of Amenastie, an ptian princess who had loved and peep by Leo in a former inoarnation 2,000 Years ago and whose rival Ayesha had been, thy nnd Leo eecave and make thelr way 0 the mountala, There they meet Ayesha. Bhe and Lao become formally betrothed ann: Marry until the latter shal hs to Kor an! baased through which will make him {mmo ‘They recelye ne ing against Ayesha 5 kre A and and Holly | They bivenc fi ti) h the} Atene, by tr capt 0, Ayesha orfers her army ‘to march mt once feninst Kaloon in an effort to rescue her ¢ Katoon at the opening of her powers nd to reaene ne onway the Khania‘s nd Holly enter Kaloon Ayesha freee 14 her to delay thelr marriage ni rues, vainly, to disanade the viele to hie plantines ant him She kisses Le pe he dies CHAPTER LV. Sending of the Shaman. 1 ‘ y. in nope: xt the doom ’ n the had no etr "t ‘t me for @while; 1 Al avar After . happer was ent t Nn anh and Iw f hefore, | tT, old end out worn fh the f oy Rod shown, lay v | whe had veiled herself—commanding cer ‘When, at length, I recovered myself | @ Matle, ft was to hear Ayesha, in a cold, alm voice—her face I ooild not see, for taln priests, who had been eummoned, to ‘bear away the body af that ao- oursed woman, ami bury her as befits her rank.” Even then I bethought mo, I remember, of the tale of Jehu and Jenedel,’” Leo, looking strangely calm and happy, jay now upon @ couch, the arms folded | on his breast. When the priests had | tramped away, bearing their royal bur- den, Ayesha who sat by his body brooding, seemed to awake, for she rose and sald: | Sint ¥ Lato | “I need a messenger, and for no com- | mon journey, since he muat search out | habitations of the @hades," and she | urned herself toward Oros and ap peared to look at him Now. for the first time, I saw that priest change countenance a little, for the eternal emtle, of which even this scene had not quite rid it, left his face, | and he grew pale and trembled, Thou art efreld,” whe sald, con- temptuously, ‘Be at rest, Oros, 1 will | not send one who is afrald. Holly, wilt thou @o for me—and Ay," I answered, ‘I am weary of life and desire no other end. Only let Sie mused a while, then sald Nay, thy thme is not yet, thou still hast work to do, Bndure, my Holly, | ts only ath.” | Then sne looked at the Shaman, the man turned one who all this while had stood e G3 a statue stands, and| on eried | | 1 to shave dnto tis was os he had , anclen gnarled, m thou 1 hear they stre 6 sald, bow-| broken hates he T ne , ene If I ¢ , ted tot 1 r I as 1 foretold n evil! #Wered, reflectively, who, by Writter ‘emile crept into his eyes, and he went’ try Knife fram falling, and thus won o swift and painiess.” | } mintress, t pleased thee to step by step, t She wept not; cnly watched as a tender worsen watches a slumbering | greatly did # verthrowing it, ar a 1 Spere, gold and silver vess ded him, then satd to me nough ‘he ever hated me, t an, Wio has known Ayesha from mag the first, did homage to my ancie , aithough IT knew Mt not, | majesty at last, when lies and defi flanee et eR) @nce would gorye his end no more. No his true nd longer now do I hear the name that hbs I and the angel ud mistress gave to me, The ‘Suir atreny with that-hath-fallen’ in his lips and In bos he di 1 is become the ‘Star-whiahshath- bore away t-the-be t-Nigia,’ and, rearisen | this night tapered wi shines fore Hines with ita iw ear This wos h morta) ¢t set no more-—my death bE love's t Well, he Is gone, and, ere now, those strength; that from the charnel house that serve ine in the Under-world Anat remember?—thou sawest thelr caps tains In the sanotuary—bend the head iy at great Ayesha's word and make her place rendy near her spou i at folly, hi this love springs again glorified to reign a conqueror forever, ro I wipe away my tears and him whom we have lost, ¢ he awaits me, os it ie me that 1 may do. 11am selfish, and forget. ‘Thou west, Sleep, friend, L bid thee been mine! W ” yutlive the fires of my hetter so. for he 80: ¢ anp I would have given hl nor Arnel I elept, doired the death of men, Yet such) When | awoke ft was day, and pomp must have been his portion in| through the window place I saw the this poor sha of a world, and tho) in that tho prrola of Kajoon had 4 pare with faurper's throne | weet. 1 saw, wl, that Ayesha, seated thou are weary, tay Holly; go rest| DY the shrouded form of Leo, wis give thee. To-morrow night we journey to| /MM, orders to her priests and ouptaln he mountain, there to celebrate these | {nd to some nobles who had survived obs “i Nf ae ie the bier aah | fo loot T erept into the riom adjoining—t | Sovernment scl ° had been Simbri's, and laid me down, }t was evening, and Ayesha stood at ipon his bed, but to sleep I was not| my. pedside able, Its door was open, and in the| "All is orepared,’ ghe sald, "Arise light of the burning clty that shone|and ride with me through the casements I could see Aye-| So we went, escorted by @ thousand | ha watching by her dead. Hour after|cavalry, for the rest stayed t+ oocupy, hour she watched, her head resting ou| or, perchance, to plunder, the land of her hand, silent, stirles, She wept not,| Kaloon, In front, the body of Lao was no sigh escaped her; only watched asi | orne by relays of priests, and behind tender woman watches a slumbering | !t tode the velled Avesha, 1 at her wide, babe, that she knows wil: ; Strange was the contrast betwee \ 4his saath dada babe, that she kn 1 awake ax | Strange Wd our arriv death, and, ince even my thought may | 44wn. And Ayes) els not. reach to where. he weene tenn | Tet face was unvelled, and 1 por. |, And Aveshe hereet eras Ves Frere ast any, tora ay to him that | celyed that tt had greatly changed. All day but a bereaved woman humbly’ fola ¢ 0 yesha, e pride and anger were departed rom | jew! i following feat, Bid ty ae {este was grown soft, wistful, yet ful Caine the Rosy Re oe Binpane We Se i , who, by this last sorrow, have of confidence and quietness, “For al yy¢) y f atoned' my Grimes and am in his eme while I could not think of what It re-| widory how, tay, feared atl Bl brace regenerate, Tell him that thus minded me, wil auddenly I remembered. | tag gag, nolnted aa wa pasaed to ¢ t was appointed, and thus Is best, Now it waa like, indeed the cownterpart | jody of Leo, uteeving bitter words Cant, me fr him also mortality t# left almost, of the holy and majestic sem:| whom I could not catch, Thereon her {pe i Ang true life begins, Command blance of the statue of the mother in oompantons flung themaelyes upon her Bin testes SBBE ks Mi the Gate of fae Banetuery, Ten with 1m such Aland, felling her with fist and spade, Q Teares look of love and power ag that mother | pros yhemaolves uy: ound, ojdn hear, © Queen,” Mighty-from-of- | cast vpon (it ftlgntened child, ‘new: prostrntes iy on PR she rons ny, risen from its dream of death, did Aye- submission to un 1 ORG thnk More. Say to Atone that | sha” gaxe upon her dead, while her 1 edie Lid lat wh t was high, and parted lips also seemed to whisper] Ayesha saw thom, and said to ma) Play her part, ‘There, | Parkes MPC Ate. ‘Sure and immorta’ | witk srmething of her ancient fire. anal in the gates, babe will balance our ae-| “at 4 h she rose and came | count, Thow hearest.” | nbn ane RAE GOES TEHO Tar) Gi “ chamber. tread the plain of Kaloon no more, he jroo, ant 4 Wainye that are pure and! conqunted Night at thet Beth) pho thinkest me fallen and dost m parting. gift have Tread this €or g now dint now pS! “then, man, begonet’* | grieve for me, my Holly,’ #he said, in mached people a lesson that : & ow % thou, gambel, Twill honor ‘Ag the word lett Avyesta’s lips, Bim. | 7 genue voice, “knowing my Jest | thoy needed long. Not for many a cone goul divorced by sin from m it gia my mesne bri leaped from the floor, grasping at some, auch fate should overt my gration, O Holly, yill they. gars to lft of ous may V ried Mis hit ete Oy the alr, as thought he ‘would olutch lon.” spear against the College of Hos and its ! way taere gis) sill be barn to us Ine Moe jfince of every syllable this own departing. xoul, ered back “Ay, Ayesha, I grieve for thee as for) eubject tribes, children of Forgiveness sternal n than fawn the Anke pathe of aaminst the board where leq. and I | myself, (To Be Concluded.) 8