one stopped to think about it, it would be found infinitely easier to deck our young ladies in white than our small tots who have (or ought to have) a far more intimate relation to the brown soil. Is it not piteous to see our little ones shedding bitter (and unnecessary) tears over the trips and stumblings of their dear, eager little feet? There is no harm done in the world save to their frocks. And if they were of the proper color, the heinousness of the crime of tumbling would soon be swept off the face of the earth-as it ought to be. How can we hope to establish the proper moral equipoise in our little ones when more fuss is made over an innocent tumble than over a display of temper? when to throw off a hat upon the grass in the excitement of a game of "tag' brings swifter retribution than to strike or push a playmate? Why not begin a reign of brown for our babies-the good, serviceable color of the earth; or green, the color of the grass, which would then lose all its horrors for the bonne?

An English Society

A society has been organized in England called the Association for the Prevention of Consumption and Other Forms of Tuberculosis. The President of the Royal College of Surgeons, the President of the Royal Society of Physicians, and many leading physicians are interested. The object is to teach the people how to prevent the disease. Circulars and pamphlets will be sent out and lectures will be given. Health resorts, both preventive and curative, will be established, giving open-air treatment.

Once the idea is established that the disease is contracted, and may be prevented, care will be used where now no attention is paid to the danger of carelessness. It is estimated that one out of ten deaths at the present time is due to tuberculosis in some form.

A Suggestion

A correspondent of The Outlook calls attention to the positive results in civilization that have been the outgrowth of the Home and Foreign Missionary movement which began in 1821. She briefly reviews the his tory of the society organized by Governor Slade, of Vermont, to send women teachers into the Northwest. She calls attention to the work accomplished by the Illinois Women's Education Society, which founded Monticello Seminary and the Ladies' Seminary at Rock ford, Ill. She attributes the beginnings of

Mount Holyoke to this movement for the education of missionaries, and now asks, What better work could the women's clubs of this country do than to organize on undenominational lines for the evangelization and Christianization of the newly acquired territory of Cuba and the Philippines, whether they remain a part of this Nation or only under its protectorate for a short period. She says that the history of the past proves what women can do in civilizing the homes of the unenlightened lands.

A College and Family Question A correspondent of the New York "Evening Post" recently protested, with logic and vigor, against putting two brothers in college at the same time. He believed it robbed the younger brother of getting the best good from his college life. He advises that the younger brother be left to make his own way without the aid of his elder brother. He must make his own friends, establish his own place. His manhood is first tested in college This correspondent urges separated rooms, in separate buildings if possible. It is an advantage to have a brother in the class ahead, this correspondent believes, but there must be no attempt to make a place socially for the younger brother. The subject is an interesting one, and is as vital to sisters as brothers.

A Modern Miracle

Flowers were sent from a Connecticut village to a house down near the East River. It was decided that instead of giving them to the children as usual, they should be kept to decorate the club room for a reception to be given by the History Club that evening. It happened that when the flowers came they were all goldenrod. The rooms were beautifully decorated by the committee of boys and girls. After the reception was over the flowers were taken home by the members and friends. When a group got to one girl's house on the way home, two of the boys fastened the goldenrod in the slats of a shutter and in the railing of the high stoop of one girl's home. This was Saturday night. Sunday morning a young girl living in the house started for early mass. The girl on the first floor was getting breakfast, and suddenly the door was flung open, and the cry came, “Oh, Louise! I prayed to St. Ann all day yesterday to send me some flowers, and the whole front of the house is covered."

October, four years ago, he was arrested on a charge of having sold military secrets to a foreign Power, the French Government having been put on the track of his offense, it was said, by the discovery of a letter, in his handwriting, found at the German Embassy. A violent anti-Semitic agitation was in progress at the time, and public opinion at once set strongly against Dreyfus. He was tried before a military court, and, in spite of earnest protestations of innocence, was convicted, mainly on the strength of an unsigned memorandum which indicated that its author had sold military secrets. On the trial this memorandum was submitted to five experts, two of whom were unable to find any trace of resemblance between the writing of the memorandum and that of Dreyfus, and one of whom (generally regarded as the most competent) maintained that Dreyfus, in writing the memorandum, had disguised his handwriting. The trial was conducted by court martial, with closed doors. Dreyfus was found guilty, condemned to be degraded from military rank, and to be imprisoned for life on Devils Island, a penal settlement off the coast of French Guiana. His brother, Matthieu Dreyfus, made the charge that the real author of the famous memorandum was Major Esterhazy, who was arrested, tried by court martial behind closed doors, and acquitted. At this point Zola addressed his famous open letter to the President of the Republic, charging, among other offenses, that Esterhazy had been acquitted by the officers of the court martial under orders from their military chiefs. Zola was indicted, and his trial was, from an American point of view, a startling perversion of the methods of justice. Zola was found guilty, and, with the editor of the paper in which his letter appeared, was sentenced to imprisonment, and fined. The defendants subsequently appealed on the ground that the court which convicted them was incompetent. Their appeal was rejected, they were again tried before the court of Versailles, which had originally convicted them, and the same penalty was imposed upon them.

on various grounds, among others because it had discovered further proof of Dreyfus's guilt in the form of a letter, written apparently by a German military attaché to an Italian military attaché, which assumed knowledge of treasonable conduct on the part of Dreyfus. The Minister of War declared that the authenticity of this letter was indisputable. This letter, by his own confession, confirmed by suicide, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry forged, for the purpose of reinforcing the disputed proofs of Dreyfus's guilt. confession and suicide, following so close upon the Zola trial, have set in motion a strong movement for the reopening of the whole case, and have caused the most intense popular excitement throughout France. Cavaignac, the Minister of War, who had laid such stress upon the forged letter, has resigned, still asserting his belief in Dreyfus's guilt, and General Zurlinden, the Military Governor of Paris, has succeeded him.

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lic feeling, which not many months ago made any advocacy of the cause of Dreyfus personally perilous, and which rarely, even in the history of France, has reached such a height of madness, is undergoing a rapid revolution. From all sides the Government is urged to reopen the Dreyfus case. Even the Paris press, which was furiously against Dreyfus, is now declaring that no other course is open to France, and the army joins in the demand. It would seem impossible that the Government should persist in the policy of refusing to reveal the evidence on which Dreyfus was convicted, and of refusing a full rehearing of the case. The military leaders have evidently been duped, or have been guilty of the gravest offenses against the State. Forces, moral, social, and political, are at work which must sooner or later compel the French Government to make a full, disclosure of the Dreyfus matter, even at the risk of international complications.

On Wednesday of last week Queen Wilhelmina the young Queen of Holland became eighteen years of age, and, in accordance with the Constitution of Holland, her reign began immediately. No ceremonies took place, however, upon that day, all public rejoicing and ceremony being deferred until this week, when the new Queen and her mother, the Queen Regent, proceeded from the Hague to Amsterdam, and were welcomed with the most genuine enthusiasm by

the people of that city, and, indeed, to a large extent of Holland generally. gathered together for that purpose. The ceremony of Tuesday was not, strictly speaking a coronation, for in Holland the kings and queens wear no crowns. It was really an enthroning. In all ways the exercises were simple, and for that reason were all the more impressive. The Queen, in the presence of representatives of the two legislative chambers, took an oath to maintain and observe the Constitution of Holland, to guard the national independence, and to protect the individual rights of all her subjects. This oath was taken on the Constitution itself—a custom peculiar to Holland. We will not undertake here to describe the festivities of the occasion, which was really a great national fête, but our readers will in due time have the pleasure of reading a special article on this subject to be sent to The Outlook by the well-known historian and student of Dutch life and literature, Dr. William Eliot Griffis. The personal affection of the people of Holland for their young Queen, and the girlish charm of her character, cannot fail to recall that occasion of sixty-one years ago when Queen Victoria was welcomed to the throne of Great Britain. May the new Dutch Queen's reign be as happy and prosperous as Victoria's !

Samoa and the Powers

There is no real reason why the death of King Malietoa, which took place last week, should compelan .mmediate settlement of the Samoan question or a division of the islands. Under the treaty between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, made in Berlin in 1889, there was provision for the succession to the Samoan throne by an election under the usual native customs, but with the supervision of the Chief Justice, who is by the treaty a foreigner. The present Chief Justice is an American, and there can be little doubt that if an election of a new king is carried out, the Chief Justice would practically have the casting vote, so to speak. It will be remembered that the disposition of the Samoan question by the Berlin treaty was practically for a tripartite occupation by the United States, Germany, and Great Britain. Of late there have been signs that Germany desired a division of the territory; and it may be added that the tripartite government is cumbrous and in many ways unsatisfactory. The Samoan Islands, in point of fact, are not

of very great commercial importance; their total commerce amounts to only about $600,000 a year, while the population is less than 40,000. The is ands are now, however, of special value to this country, because they form a station on the route from San Fran cisco through the Hawaiian Islands to Australia and New Zealand. The division of the islands which has been proposed would give to the United States the smallest of the three principal islands—that containing the harbor and coaling-station of Pago Pago, already ours-while Germany would take the island which has the most trade, and England that which has the greatest area. The late King Malietoa was a man of interesting and picturesque personality. Although descended from many generations of cruel and savage ancestors, he was of the mildest disposition, had Christian forbearance, and more than once showed himself willing to sacrifice his own interests and even his throne for the possible future benefit of his country. His deposition between 1887 and 1889 was accompanied by some touching evidences of his devotion to his people. It is said that the phrase he used most constantly to express his deepest wish was, "Some good thing for Samoa." A newspaper writer on his reign well expresses the truth in saying that Malietoa "had to see his feeble realm of distant islands caught up in the whirl of confused diplomacy of European Powers seeking its dismemberment."

The attention of the Army Mismanagement country is concentrated on the question whether the soldiers in the recent campaign were properly cared for and are now properly taken care of in the various camps and hospitals. Secretary Alger continues to maintain an attitude toward his critics which indicates, apparently, entire inability on his part to recognize the gravity of the charges against army management, and the depth and extent of public feeling. While the President was inspecting Camp Wikoff last week, one of the nurses called his attention to the fact that soldiers were dying in the grass outside the hospital, and that it was impossible to get them under its roof. It was explained to the President that the nurse was "hysterical." Unfortunately, reports which come in from many quarters regarding the condition of the troops in camps, especially of the sick, in