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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 136, 4 March 1919, Page 4

Recent developments at the Babies] House, Wealdstone, include a Montcssori Nursery School, with a trained teacher for those children between threo and five, and it is interesting to see the tots of four years of ago carrying tho tureen of soup'and serving it out to the children seated nt a table spread with a clean white cloth, and decked with flowers, all arranged by themselves, acting in turn as "waiters," and finally away and washing up under the direction of our local elementary schools those of tho girls who are Hearing school-leaving age, for instruction jn babycraft, nnd to listen to tho matron's "talks" o'i two afternoons a week. The time (he girls put in at the nursery daily, from 8.30 to 1 one week, nnd from 2 to 1 another, is regarded as equivalent to a school attendance.

BACKING A WINNEE. New Zenlanders are great sports. They will travel hundreds of miles to seo a contest of speed nnd endurance. When Desert Gold is going to meet Gloaming in a test of endurance and speed there is a flutter of excitement in Ao-te-n-voa and Wm-pounnmu and from the North Cape to tho Bluff. How much excitement would there be if it was definitely known that one of them had been "doped" ? 'J hsy wouldn't go a yard to see the finest raceiiorse that ever looked through a bridle if the man with tho rocdle had been there first. In nil tests and contestsin racing, in running, in boxing, in rowing in riding—directly there is a suspicion of "dope," tho knowing one gels from under. Alcohol is "dope." the alcohol ist is beaten before lie steps into tho arena against an opponent who Ims "trained clean." When Shnekleton heads for tho Polo ho takes not one ounce of alcohol in the cargo-not one ounce. He knows belter. And yet there are people who can't walk two blocks on a cold day without wantiivt a stimnlant-a dope What funny little people some men are! -Advt.