music."--_Local Paper._

We shouldn't wonder.

* * * * *

"Another element in the industrial activity of Japan, which is brought
forcibly home to the Westerner, is the obvious pleasure that the
Japanese people take in doing the work which is allotted to them. It is
no uncommon sight to see men laughing merrily as they drag along their
heavy merchandise, or singing as they swing their anvils in a manner
almost reminiscent of the historic village blacksmith."--_Provincial
Paper._

And "children coming home from school" know better than to "look in at the
open door."

* * * * *

[Illustration: "GRANDFATHER, I SIMPLY LOVE YOUR NICE LONG BEARD. PROMISE ME
YOU'LL NEVER HAVE IT BOBBED."]

* * * * *

THE EGOIST.

On Monday morning Hereward Vale left home in an unsettled state of mind.
That was putting it mildly. He was thoroughly unhappy. Something was up--he
couldn't tell what--or whether it was his own fault or Mary's. Anyhow, it
didn't seem to matter whose fault it was. The thing had happened. That was