. Christian herald and signs of our times. tates,\vho,when spok-en to upon the subject of erecting a gvm-nasium for young women, said that girlsin his district had exercise enough withoutanything of that kind: they swept and dusted. and milked cows. But we are begin-ning to see that exercise to be most bene-ficial to the body and mind alike must benot only a complete change, and bring intoplay muscles not generaliv used, but mustalso be enjoyable. Unless the element ofpure enjoyment comes in, the natural func-tions of the body are arrested through theinfluence of the brain. Also our exercisemu


. Christian herald and signs of our times. tates,\vho,when spok-en to upon the subject of erecting a gvm-nasium for young women, said that girlsin his district had exercise enough withoutanything of that kind: they swept and dusted. and milked cows. But we are begin-ning to see that exercise to be most bene-ficial to the body and mind alike must benot only a complete change, and bring intoplay muscles not generaliv used, but mustalso be enjoyable. Unless the element ofpure enjoyment comes in, the natural func-tions of the body are arrested through theinfluence of the brain. Also our exercisemust be ennobling. We cannot set a highmark before ourselves and make all ourwork tend to build up to it, and then letslip into our recreation and exercise elementswhich undo the good. ** A Hint to Mothers. An eminent teacher was asked recentlywhat she Considered the greatest obstaclenowadays in a girls education, and shepromptly replied, Their mothers. Shethen explained that the school in which sheta>2ht nominally opened in October, but. jv toot-if> of the 1 roadway,wiow n in ! foreground of the illustration) is sacred i 3ible memories. From Kulonieh to Jeru-)j?m is an uphill journey, and as the trav-el proceeds, hallowed memories crowd h other and he can picture in imagina-the Ark being borne upward in tn- * ph to Mount Zion, with the priests andM people following. Along this same high-dv. Jesus and the two disciples probablv !ked together on the way to cohorts have swept past and Romanions have marched on this highwav. andje, too, have passed the hosts of the Cru-lers and Saracens, tramping into cloudslust the white thoroughfare along which, * ituries before, the fragrant beams of ce-} were carried for the erection of Solo-»»n s Temple. >irhere is a-great charm for the tourist in< s part of Palestine, so quietlv beautifulIB retired, and vet so near to the Holv THE VILLAGE OF KULONIEH, NEAR a photograph brought from Palestin


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