Welsh Journals

physical education, as he grows up he should be taught that the training and care of his body are a duty to himself and the State, and that only by activity and health can the robuster virtues and the decisive mind be attained. With this practical training must go, in the later years, theoretical instruction in those things which are essential to the health of the body and in the elementary laws of health applied to social and industrial life. This instruc- tion will result in the diffusion of a social knowledge and a self respect that will react steadily in the creation of intelligent opinion, which will dispel the smoky pall of ignorance and apathy which permits slumdom and filth to ^survive in our midst. If we are to learn from Greek social life let us also learn from the Jewish race that, in its care of childhood, has no equal. We still allow our young women to grow up in ignorance and carelessness quite unprepared for child nurture. Motherhood is the fate and the happy fate of most, but we teach them nothing of its craft. The success of the Jewish mother as a child-tender in the East End of London shames her Gentile sisters whose babies die from their ignorance of the scientific elements of the task. The slaughter of the innocents goes on, the sword of ignorance is still the weapon. (R. G. Popkfn, killed in action, 27th Sept., 1918.) You loved the sunshine and a cloudless sky, The light and gladness of a summer day, You knew no winter, but it seemed your way Would ever through the lands of summer lie Where faith is strong, and hope can never die. Men meeting you would smile, and passing say Who cares for storms, what if the skies be grey. We caught his laughter as we passed him by." Now night has come for me and never more We'll watch a golden sunset from the shore Or tramp the heath and hear the curlews' cries. You live in summer still, for you have won The glory of a never setting sun The beauty of eternal, cloudless skies. I.M. E. Williams- David. The Athens of the age of Pericles was a small aristocracy resting on the unsure foundations of a slave state. Wales is a free democracy that might steadily achieve strength and beauty of mind and body for its children if it wills to do it. I came that ye might have life and that ye might have it more abundantly," these words sum up the argument. A higher level of comfort and a larger amount of leisure are parts of the more abundant life. But if bodies are not to be healthier and better, if minds are not going to increase their perception of beauty and grow in fulness and vigour, and if, above all, social service and a higher sense of duty do not develope at an equal pace, then only small material gains will be the fruits of prolonged effort and aspiration. There is a limit to reasonable comfort, leisure is a new tool whose good use is learned gradually. It is for the sake of body and mind that good physical training and opportunities for all forms of play must be given from childhood to manhood. With a higher standard of education in which an adequate place is given to the teaching of the principles of health as applied to personal and social conduct, the waste of human life in invalidity and premature death will be lessened, and the happiness and wealth of the people of Wales will be in- creased. YR IAWN. (I WEINYDDES). Yn hoen ieuengoed ar Eryri draw Truanaf lef dynoliaeth atat ddaeth A'i hateb wnest drwy fyn'd o'th fodd yn gaeth I leddfu'r gwae, a thyner fron a liaw. Yn nhawch y ddinas, yn ei berw hi Hiraethaist ganwaith yn unigedd nos Am wynt cyfeiliorn grwydrai waun a rhos Ac erwau'r hendre deg adwaenit ti. Ac heddyw gwelais yn dy lygaid pur Oleuni mwyn nad adnabum i gynt, Ennynwyd gan ddynoliaeth ar ei hynt. Wrth ysu'i sorod ar allorau cur. Ai digon tal y gole cyfrin roes Am wrid a weriaist ti ym marchnad oes ? A.