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condition of the poor more abject than
anything we knew, and the richest
enjoyed little of the comfort which
is today well nigh universal. People
were supposed to bear the ills to
which they were born, and all the
efforts of a dozen knights in mail
with plumed helmets did not go as far
toward alleviating misery in a month
as do the ministrations of a single
visiting nurse now.
We live an age of chivalry vastly
expanded. Where there was one work
er for others in the knights’ days,
there are a hundred now, and chivalry
permeates the spirit of all the good
causes which enlist so many willing
hands. Between the tenth and four
teenth centuries it was but in the
bud; now it is in flower, and later on
the full harvest of fruitage will come.
There never was a time when there
was such universal war against op
pression of the weak and helpless,
when every form of cruelty was so in
dignantly frowned upon, when woman
hood and childhood were more sturdily
championed and protected, when the
poor and sick were so tenderly re
garded and cared for, or when the
lower animals were made the objects
of such solicitude and shelter from
harm and suffering. There never was
a time when, at peace as we are with
all the world, there were more con
stant exhibitions of quiet, modest
courage and splendid heroism than
are constantly occurring in the records
of our daily lives. In all sorts of
accidents —by fire and flood, by the
forces of nature, by travel, and by the
operation of great industries —there
is always some one ready, generally
some unknown, unheralded person, to
risk his life in order to save others.
If that isn’t chivalry, there never was
such a thing. We do not yet by any
means possess all the virtues, but
courage and unselfish devotion in
times of stress are very good to build
on. —The Washington Post.
THE CHAMPLAIN TERCENTENARY
Few cities in the world, and no city
on this continent, could provide a more
attractive physical setting or a more
varied and interesting historical back
ground than Quebec will furnish for
the three-hundredth anniversary of the
landing of Champlain, which will
occur in July.
The story of Champlain’s explora
tions and the establishment of his
settlement and trading post at Quebec
is the beginning of a long chapter of
romantic history. Before he died, in
1635, he had penetrated as far west
as Lake Huron, and established sever
al outposts; and had already laid the
foundations of that understanding with
the Indians which proved an in
estimable advantage to the French
throughout their history in Canada.
In 1615 came the first of those mis
sionaries whose travels and adven
tures and sufferings are an epic in
themselves. They were pioneers in
the great work of American education,
for, as early as 1633, they founded a
college for the instruction of young
men who were to undertake the
civilization of the Indians and their
conversion to Christianity.
Canada became a royal province of
France in 1663, and during the last
three decades of the seventeenth cen
tury, under Frontenac, the ablest of
the governors, began that growth and
expansion which made inevitable the
struggle with England.
The maneuvering and intriguing
and clashing of the two great nations,
with half a continent as the stake;
the ill-fated expedition of Sir William
Phips; the battle on the Plains of
Abraham, with its tremendous con
sequences; the terrible winter march
of Arnold and his men through the
wilderness of Maine —what a stirring
drama it is! How picturesque and
varied are the actors, and yet how
elemental the motives and the action!
No city has better preserved the
flavor of its past than has Quebec.
The grandeur of the approaches to it,
the antiquity and quaintness of its
streets and houses, will form a fit
setting for the celebration in July;
and the accessibility and agreeable
summer climate of the city will make
the prospect of being present at the
ceremonies unusually attractive to
Americans.
Among the permanent benefits to
Quebec will be the clearing of the
Plains of Abraham of some unsightly
buildings, the restoration of the battle
field to its original condition, and its
dedication as a memorial park or
parade-ground.—The Youth’s Com
panion.
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THE WHITE NARCISSUS.
“If I could only live among beautiful
things as you do, I believe I could be
good!” exclaimed a tired farmer’s
daughter to a city friend, whose two
rooms were filled with photographs
and books. The friend could but
make the well-worn explanation that
the sky outside the kitchen window
is actually more beautiful than the
photograph of Corot’s vision of a sky,
and that the fields, green or white,
and the flowers and birds are more
truly poetry than the verses of Words
worth or Keats.
Beneath the cry of the soul hungry
for beautiful things is the desire for
real ownership. The cloud may be
seen by a thousand eyes but it escapes
the hand which would hold it. Meadow
and stream in the picture bring their
message of beauty with deepened
emphasis, all the year round, because
they are fairly captured by the artist.
Our civilization has yet to learn
from the reflective East that the
luxury of beauty is a necessity for
human life. Without it the spirit
starves, and suffers from restlessness
and irritation and inefficiency, as one
suffers from insufficient physical
nourishment.
Mohammed put into words a great
symbolic truth when he said to his
disciples.. “If any man have two loaves,
let him sell one and buy some flowers
of the white narcissus; for the one
is food for the body, and the other
is food for the soul.” —Exchange.
HOW HE KNEW THE TIME.
“Lady,” said the ragged individual
at the door, “I’m a clock repairer. If
yer clock- runs fast or slow I kin fix
it. It’s jist 12:30 now.
“How do you know it is?” asked the
housekeeper.
“ ’Cause I always gits hungry at
12:30.” —Philadelphia Press.
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