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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 658, 8 November 1909, Page 8

L — . Visitor—"Tolllthe mafetor of the hooso :tliat a '■ :■■■ ■ fncndr'has call6d-> to sec .lum;" -Maid—"You ■mi- must -be at the wrong house; • A".tax-collector lives hero" ' The death of Dr. W. Bion, for. many years ; ofrthe.Predigerkirche in Zurich, at tho- a£e..-of: eighty, .terminates a career*-winch -: j was singularly, nth an. practical expressions, of r. human. sympathy, good humour, and kindly !■ i feeling. Walter Ihon was brought 'up m I ■ Thurgnn during tho.stormypenod l created by j; . the teachm" .of .. Stranss at Tnbingen.. At tho f v age .'of'2l ;bo returned, as a minister, to his 1; native land, and proceeded to throw, hnnsolf [ - into many: of v social ■■ semce. Tho I - foundation of cottags homes for the poor, the f ■-;■.■■■: establishment iof h labour exchanges, the or- } . gamsation ;of a parish nursing service, and I; ..v; many similar works ifere due to the porsistonl f •... efforts of. l>r- Bion. : ' great. v?ojrk-:was the p; v ratablishmcnt of the holiday colony for town f:,' ,children. '-.'Coming.', to a' town parish from 1 the is't*. ; bracing: heights of Appcnzell, ho was struck t w/ , .nath the difference m.physique and complexior I of the chddren in tho two localities.' By dint [=.. of complacent worryrng ho got together fund* j-;:,, safficKmt to send/ a batch- of -. children to th« |i, . for a fortmsht. -After■;-.'25.-.-years ; .;c p.: :>■ census' Was token -of - the: .holiday colonic; I-. throughout the world, and 'it showed that fern tf.. t . couatnes had done. ntflti ng in ■ the : matter, :• anc I xp that" se?wal non-Eurtecan , races . had mad*