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in a cocoanut shell, gourd, or other vessel. 

 The sugar is cane sugar, and is often pre- 

 pared for itself. The richness of the juice 

 is affected by the peculiarities of the species 

 and of the tree, and its fermentability by the 

 place of growth. The species used for wine 

 are the oil-palm on the West Coast of Africa, 

 the date-palm in northern Africa and India, 

 the fan-palm and toddy-palm in India, the 

 cocoa-palm in Ceylon and the islands of the 

 Pacific, and the gOmmutti-palm in the Indian 

 archipelago, the Moluccas, and the Philip- 

 pines. 



The Indians of Northwest Canada. Dr. 



Boas, in the British Association Report on 

 the Northwestern Tribes of the Dominion of 

 Canada, describes the Indians of the Pacific 

 coast as being able-bodied and muscular, with 

 the upper limbs, owing to the strengthening 

 of the arms and chest by the constant use of 

 the paddle, generally better developed than 

 the lower ones. They have a keen sight, but 

 in old age frequently become blear-eyed. 

 Their mental capacity is high, as is proved 

 by the state of their culture. Whiteness of 

 skin and slenderness of limbs are considered 

 among the principal beauties of men and 

 women, and long, black hair of women. In 

 some of the tales red hair is described as a 

 peculiar beauty of women Red paint on the 

 face, tight-fitting bracelets and anklets of 

 copper, nose and ear ornaments of variegated 

 haliotis shells, and hair strewed with eagle- 

 down, add to the natural charms. The fact 

 that in honor of the arrival of friends the 

 house is swept and strewed with sand, and 

 that the people bathe at such occasions, shows 

 that cleanliness is appreciated. The current 

 expression is, that the house is so cleaned that 

 no bad smell remains to offend the guest. For 

 the same reason the Indian takes repeated 

 baths before praying, "that he may be of 

 agreeable smell to the deity." The Indian 

 is grave and self-composed in all his actions ; 

 and playing is considered undignified and 

 even bad. In the Tsimshian language the 

 term for play means to talk to no purpose ; 

 and doing anything to no purpose is con- 

 temptible to the Indian. He is rash in anger, 

 but docs not easily lose control over his ac- 

 tions. He sits down or lies down sullenly for 

 days without partaking of food, and when he 

 rises his first thought is, not how to take re- 



venge, but to show that he is superior to his 

 adversary. Great pride and vanity, com- 

 bined with the most susceptible jealousy 

 characterize all actions of the Indian. He 

 watches that he may receive his proper share 

 of honor at festivals ; he can not endure to 

 be ridiculed for even. the slightest mistake- 

 he carefully guards all his actions, and looks 

 for due honor to be paid to him by friends, 

 strangers, and subordinates. To be strong 

 and able to sustain the pangs of hunger are 

 evidently considered worthy of praise by the 

 Indians ; but foremost of all is wealth. It is 

 considered the duty of every man to have 

 pity upon the poor and hungry. Women are 

 honored for their chastity and for being true 

 to their husbands ; children, for taking care 

 of their parents ; men, for skill and daring 

 in hunting and for bravery in war. 



Manual Training and the Brain. In the 



discussion of Dr. Edward C. Kirk's paper 

 on the Manual-training Idea as a Factor in 

 Dental Education, in Philadelphia, Dr. J. L. 

 Eisenbrey said that " the benefit to be de- 

 rived from physical training means more 

 than hand skill ; it means the training of the 

 brain man, the mental man ; while you may 

 show the effect of manual training in physi- 

 cal work, the result upon the brain does not 

 come up until later on, lying back until the 

 time calls for it ; and you find that the men 

 who occupy a conspicuous place, the young 

 men in our profession, are the men who have 

 had that training. To lay the foundation of 

 a broad and complete education you need 

 physical training, whether you get it in the 

 city or country. I think that the country 

 training is the best, from the simple fact 

 that all over the whole land we find the 

 places of trust in our banking institutions, 

 the head places of our mechanical depart- 

 ments, and even in our schools of learning, 

 filled by men who have been imported from 

 the country, from the farm ; who have han- 

 dled the axe and the plow and the grubbing- 

 hoe, who laid open the ditches and made of 

 the swamps fruitful pastures. Physical train- 

 ing develops a good condition of physical 

 health, and that means a healthful condi- 

 tion of the brain man ; and, while it is a 

 little slower, there comes a time when this 

 healthful physical condition is shown in men- 

 tal strength." 



