Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth. And then, the justice,
In fair round belly, with good capon lined,

With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side;
His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness, and mere oblivion:
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Shakspeare.

Stage, platform in a theatre on

which plays are acted; through the Fr. from a Lat. word staticus, from sto, I stand. Ex'-its, goings-out. Exit is the third person singular present indicative of Lat. exeo, go out. Mewl'-ing, crying. Puk'-ing, spewing.

Satch'-el, a bag. An old form was sachel; a diminutive of sack.

Pard, the panther.
Cap'-on, a goose.

Form'-al, according to a set form;
precise.
Pan-ta-loon', a foolish or silly old

man. Pantaloon was the name
of the clown in the Italian
comedy.

Ob-liv'-i-on, forgetfulness.
Sans, without. Fr. sans, from Lat.
sine, without.

THE DYING GLADIATOR.

I see before me the Gladiator lie :

He leans upon his hand-his manly brow
Consents to death, but conquers agony,
And his drooped head sinks gradually low-
And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow
From the red gash fall heavy, one by one,
Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now

The arena swims around him—he is gone,

Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who

won.

He heard it, but he heeded not-his eyes
Were with his heart, and that was far away;
He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize,
But where his rude hut by the Danube lay,
There were his young Barbarians all at play,
There was their Dacian mother-he, their sire,
Butchered to make a Roman holiday-

All this rushed with his blood-shall he expire
And unavenged ?—Arise, ye Goths! and glut your ire.

Glad'-i-a-tor, a trained fighter, who

took part in the great shows in ancient Rome. In these combats men fought with men and wild beasts, and wild beasts fought with each other for the amusement of the populace. From Lat. gladius, a sword. Con-sents', yields. From Lat. con, together, and sentio, I feel. A-re'-na, an open space strewed with

sand, on which the gladiators fought. From Lat. arena, sand. In-hu'-man, cruel, unworthy of a man. From Lat. in, not, and humanus, human, from homo, a

man.

Da'-ci-an.

Lord Byron.

Dacia was a country on the north side of the Danube, occupying chiefly the northeastern part of modern Austria. This country was conquered by the Romans about 100 A.D. Men were brought from all parts of the Roman Empire to fight at the great shows.

Ex-pire', die, breathe out his life.
From Lat. ex, out, and spiro,
I breathe.

Goths, people of North Germany,
who afterwards overthrew the
Roman Empire.

Glut, satisfy greedily.

WHAT WE DRINK—I.

1. Water constitutes two-thirds of the entire weight of the human body. It does not, however, exist in the body simply as water, but is included along with other substances in the composition of blood, bone, flesh, fat, and nerve. In order to maintain this amount of water, a healthy man must take about five pounds daily. Of this quantity, about two pounds is contained in solid food, and the rest is taken as fluid. The fluids most used are water, milk, tea, coffee, cocoa or chocolate, and fermented liquors.

WATER.

2. There are two kinds of water-soft and hard. By soft water we mean water which has fallen as rain and has not been allowed to come in contact with the earth. It is comparatively pure. Hard water is that which is got from rivers, springs, and wells, and which in passing through the earth has become charged with mineral and other substances. These give the water the feeling of hardness. Hard water is most pleasant for drinking, while soft is better for washing and cooking purposes. Hard water may be made less hard by being boiled.

3. Since so much of our food contains water, it is of the highest importance that our water-supplies should be pure. In order to insure this, care must be taken to have no communication between supply-pipes and waste-pipes-cisterns should be kept very clean and well covered-and where there is any danger of impurity in the water, it should be filtered.

4. Though we must take daily such a large quantity

of water, we ought to take it at right times and in a reasonable manner. Thus no one should drink much at meal times, because a quantity of cold water interferes with digestion. The water that is drunk should be taken in mouthfuls, and rather towards the end of the meal than at the beginning. Neither should we make a habit of taking large draughts of cold water, because the stomach has to bring everything it receives to its own heat before it can begin digestion, and we overwork it if we treat it in that way. This habit should be particularly avoided in warm weather.

MILK.

5. Milk is the best and most valuable of all the fluids

used by man. No other food, whether solid or liquid, contains so much nourishment, because no other food has all the necessary elements in it. Some are rich in flesh-forming material, and others in bone-making and heat-giving substances; it is only in milk that we obtain all those elements which are indispensable, if we wish to have sound healthy minds and bodies. It is evident then that we should daily take a good supply of milk, and infants should never have any other food. Butter and cheese, which are made from milk, are not so nourishing, because in the processes of churning and cheese-making, several of the nutritive ingredients of the milk are pressed out and remain behind in the shape of butter-milk or whey.

6. Milk should form a larger item in the daily food provided for children than at present it does; and it is highly important that the vessels in which it is received should be scrupulously clean, and the situation of the larder in which it is kept, healthy, as nothing is

more easily infected or more active in spreading

disease.

Con'-sti-tutes, forms. From Lat.

con, together, and statuo, I place. Com-pos-i'-tion, making up. From Lat. con, together, and pono, I place. Choc'-o-late, originally a Mexican word, which came to us through the Spaniards. Fer-ment'-ed, containing alcohol. Lat. fermentum for fervimentum, from Lat. ferveo, I boil. Cis'-terns, places for holding water. From Lat. cisterna, from cista, a chest.

EXERCISES.-1. Explain the following: (1) Comparatively pure; (2) cold water interferes with digestion; (3) all those elements which are indispensable; (4) the nutritive ingredients; (5) scrupulously clean; (6) easily infected.

2. Analyse and parse the following: 'As we are here depicting the man as he was, we must add that he had said more than once: "I do not think I could give up this recreation."

3. Name all the derivatives you know from the following Latin roots (1) Nutrio, I nourish; (2) video, I see; (3) homo, a man; (4) spiro, I breathe; (5) spiro compounded with con-, re-, ad- (as-), ex-, trans-, in-.

WHAT WE DRINK-II.

TEA.

1. Little more than two centuries ago, such beverages as tea, coffee, and cocoa were entirely unknown in Western Europe. How our ancestors managed to enjoy existence without them we cannot understand; and all will admit that no food or drink has done so much as tea and coffee to make our common life happy and agreeable.

2. Tea is made from the leaf of a shrub which grows