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GANGES 



In modern times baseball is the great pro- 

 fessional game in America, while other athletic 

 games are largely the province of schools 

 and colleges. Very pretentious are some of the 

 great football struggles between large schools, 

 and many thousands of people watch them 

 with breathless interest. Some years ago the 

 Olympian Games were revived as an interna- 

 tional affair, and were of world-wide interest 

 until interrupted by the War of the Nations. 



The great value of games is not that thou- 

 sands shall sit cramped in uncomfortable 

 bleachers in broiling sunshine to see a group of 

 over-trained lads, who are often weakened by 

 this over-strain, struggle in a game of football ; 

 but that all our youth shall receive, while still 

 attending school, such training as will make for 

 a completely rounded physical development. 

 That this can be done, and joy and power 

 be added, should be a cause of rejoicing, 

 and the efforts of parent and teacher should 

 be united to make our boys and girls stronger, 

 more alert, better able to withstand all enemies 

 of health through consistent, normal, regu- 

 lar training in calisthenics, swimming, and out- 

 of-door games that develop the muscles, train 

 the eye and keep the heart clean and pure. 



Every important competitive game, whether 

 it be athletic, as baseball, football, golf or 

 tennis; or mental, as chess, checkers or whist, 

 is given full treatment in these volumes. F.H. 



GANANOQUE, gah nah nohk' , a summer re- 

 sort in Leeds County, Ontario, situated on the 

 north bank of the Saint Lawrence River, at 

 the point where it receives the' waters of the 

 Gananoque River. Brockville is thirty-four 

 miles northeast. Railway transportation is 

 provided by the Thousand Island Railway, 

 which connects with the Grand Trunk Railway 

 at Gananoque Junction, three miles distant. 

 Steamers communicate directly with Toronto, 

 Montreal, and Rochester and other Canadian 

 and United States ports. 



Gananoque is an Indian name, meaning 

 rocks on the water. It refers no doubt to the 

 Thousand Islands (which see) in the lower 

 Saint Lawrence River, here nine miles wide. 

 The town has a post office and customhouse, 

 erected in 1914, a high school and a public 

 library. The Gananoque River at this point 

 has a fall of twenty-one feet, affording abun- 

 dant water power. There are about twenty 

 industrial establishments, engaged chiefly in 

 making cheese and small foundry and machine 

 shop products; there are also boat-building 

 yards and granite quarries. Gananoque was in- 



corporated as a town in 1890, and in 1911 had 

 a population of 3,804. F.J.O'C. 



GANGES, one of the world's great rivers, is 

 to the Hindus the most sacred river of India, 

 a stream whose waters, according to popular 

 belief, work curative miracles and cleanse the 

 body as no other water can do it. Holy cities 



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line its banks, temples are approached by stairs 

 or ghats direct from the water's edge, and it is 

 a popular superstition that whosoever meets 

 death in the river is borne on its waters to 

 Paradise. At Benares, Allahabad and other 

 cities many thousands of pilgrims meet every 

 year for the purpose of bathing in the Ganges 

 and taking honlfr a little of the holy water. 

 To the natives of Hindustan the Ganges repre- 

 sents the great center of religious life. To the 

 modern Western mind the river appeals as the 

 commercial route down which most of the 

 great wealth of India floats to the sea. 



The river, which drains the slopes of the 

 Himalaya Mountains, rises in a vast snow field 

 10,300 feet above sea level, and after a course 

 of 1,557 miles it pours at the rate of about 

 400,000 cubic feet per second into the Bay of 

 Bengal. Its basin covers an area of over 

 390,000 square miles of the most fertile and 

 most densely-populated country in the world. 

 The Jumna, Ramganga, Gumti, Gogra, Son 

 and Kusi rivers swell its waters, which in rainy 

 seasons overflow its banks for hundreds of 

 miles. The mouths of the Ganges form the 

 largest delta in the world. This great delta 

 makes a network of dismal jungle and swamp 

 land inhabited by crocodiles and other wild ani- 

 mals. Calcutta, Patna, Murshidabad, Cawn- 

 pore and Bahar are among the most important 

 cities on its banks. 



