MEN WHO HAVE NEVER SEEN THEIR WIVES.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16412, 4 January 1919, Page 2

MEN WHO HAVE NEVER SEEN THEIR WIVES.

Cupid is always busj at St. Dunstah's 1 (says the London "Evening News")- An average of two weddings a wOek takes, place among blind soldiers : more than 200 havo already been married. Some of the mfen were engaged before they were blinded. Girls do not give up their blind fiances; fact," an official at St. Dunstan's said, "we have had cases where the girl who refused to marry the man before ho was blind took him afterwards." The men sometimes marry girls they have Dever seen. Somo have been their teacher or their cox in the boats on the lake; in two or three instances men havo married girls quite above their own station in life. A labourer married a woalt/hy, refined woman. Tho marriages nave tnrnwd out very happily. The men arc a.ll able to keep themselves and their wives, for they havo been trained at St. Dunstan's to he self-supporting. The wives also usually take an interest in their husband's •work. Those who marry blind poultry-farm-ers are given the opportunity of attending a cQurse of instruction in poul-try-farming. Wives who have married cobblers have usually learned stitching from the visiting cobbler who teaches the blind men. v "It "is very desirable that the men should.be married," the official said, "for their wives can be of great assistance to them. They aro nearly all trained to -work at home." A silver teapot is given to every man as a wedding present from St. Dunstan's. and tho wedding breakfast is provided.

EARLY TRAINING OF CHILDREN. The trainihg of children in good manners must be founded oil respect and obedience. But authority should be enforced by .parents without destroying the self-respect of the child. Every boy and girl has an innate sense of what is just, and cannot listen to words without being first wounded and then hardened. Nothing lias so- much power with children as love. Be kind and gentle with them ; let them know how dear they are, and it will be an easy task to control them. They should always bo governed gently, yet firmly, thus retaining their respect and love; and even very young children will learn to dread their parents' displeasure through the fear of losing their affection. To know "mother is vexed, and that they have disappointed her in tlieir beliavi;ouir," means » great deal to affectionate children. To always, tell the truth, to be unselfish, to protect those younger and not so strong, and to respect the aged,, are some of tho first lessons that should be instilled into a young child's mind. But it is not enough for the mother'to teach it; there must be the example in tho everyday life of thfe home. You may. give them as much liberty as is possible with good management, and make as few rules as possible, but insist' on those given being Reproofs should never be administered in j the presence of others, particularly' to prond, sensitive children, as they do more harm than good bv causing un-' necessary humiliation. The child who is thus considered by its mother or I father is very apt to preserve its selfI respect through life, and avoid doing aught that would incur reproof. In training children in good manners, . mothers often mistake an overflow of spirits—a natural playfulness of healthy children—for'rudeness, and: in subduing and correcting these high spirits the}' rob the little ones of wholesome exercise and a large share j of the sunshine of their lives. | A child should bo taught from the j earliest to be ashamed of nothing but what is wrong, and he should be earl}' J encouraged to confess any disobedience or wrong done. "Do not let your child be afraid of you," are words that every mother should take to heart, and the golden precept for "A fault confessed is half atoned" should be carefully acted upon. A child that is afraid to say it has broken a cup. torn its clothes, or lost anything will grow up a moral coward—tho one thins which mothers should try to avoid. TEA AS A CONSOLER. As regards the female sex at any rate, tea is (writes "Saturday Review") the great consoler in grief and trouble, and an eminent physician has fcrulj' said that manv a poor woman has been saved from suicide by a timely cup of it. Against suicide tea would seem to be a protective in some special sense, for in former timeu, wherever the slave trade prevailed— in the West Indies, Mauritius, Brazil, and Mexico—the Kola tree was introduced and cultivated, because its

fruit, the principle of which is theine, not only gratified an intense predilection of the negroes and sustained them under overwork, preventing the sense of fatigue, but warded off a preaisposition to epidemic suicidal mania which not infrequently depopulated considerable districts. It is to its stimulating and rostoratiye action oh the central nervous system that tea owes its world-wide popularity. It is not a food, for it neither builds up the tissues nor provides tiynn with potential energy. It does not diminish waste, but rather increases it. It gives a trifling fillip to the heart, and dilates the superficial blood vessels, thus imparting a feeling of warmt]i; but it is not this property that has commended it to universal favour, for other beverages possess it in ampler degree. No, it is its still mysterious influence on the brain and its appendages, Quickening their operations, and freeing them from frictional impediments, that has made it the. prince of potations and a sovereign i-emedy in most of tho minor and in rftanv of the major ills that flesh, and especially femalo flesh, is heir to. Tea on its march made its way into Europe from Java in . 1610, and at first advanced with faltering steps and in the face of strong opposition. In the records of the old East India Copnpany there is a reference to it in 1615 under the name of ,chaw, and after that it gradually became known to tho wealthier inhabitants of London, but its price must have greatly restricted its use, for it fetched as much as £10 a pound. In 1660 Pepys wrote in his diary: "I sent for a cup of tee, a China drink of which I had never drank before." It was no doubt from tho coffee house established by Mr Thomas Garrawav in 1657 for the sale of the prepared beverage—the forerunner of the innumerable tea shops of to-day—that Pepys obtained his cup. . TO-DAY'S RECIPE. Fruit Chartreuse.—Line a mould w.ith lemon jelly (made with iJoz of gelatine to tho ouarfc): arrange circles of any fruit, such as halved strawberries, cherries, or grapes, sliced bananas, etc., on this, then- another layer of jelly and when this is setting more fruit, and so on till the mould is filled; loavo it.to set. Serve with whipped cream or plain.