The London Welshman

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Notes of the Week. Smiling May !—Had Dafydd ap Gwilym lived in the beginning of the twentieth instead of the fourteenth century, it is very doubtful whether he would have been so enthusiastic in praise of May. The great Welsh poet wished every month to be May. But our latest .experience makes us think him mad, like all poets. We prefer December to the recent specimen of May. Only for about sixty hours at the outside has the month smiled at all; at all other times it has frowned and grinned and spat cold, biting, withering moisture on the poor earth that longed for tender kisses and warm embraces. Dafydd ap Gwilym says that he would remain in the bush day and night all through the month we find that it requires all our courage to go out of doors at all, and we can hardly keep the grates full enough of fuel. Just fancy any man remaining in the open a second more than is absolutely necessary when all the hills are covered with snow, and a north-easterly blast sweeping the dales We can almost believe the theory that the earth will soon be reduced to the same condition that the moon is in, too disagreeable for human beings to remain upon it. We certainly think that the seasons are changing, or else that Dafydd ap Gwilym and Chaucer, and other poets who sang of the sunniness and loveliness of May, must have been what Macaulay said all poets were— frenzy. » C.=B." Collared.-At last the women suffragists managed to get at "C.-B." We cannot say whether it was chivalry or the sense of fear that induced the Prime Minister to meet a deputation of fair Amazons at the Foreign Office on Satur- day last. But they failed to get him to pledge the Government to any immediate action. He expressed himself personally to be in hearty sympathy with their movement. And to hiss him after that was somewhat unchivalrous. He told them afterwards point blank that their question is not ripe enough for any Govern- ment to take up, and at that statement there were more hisses. The Prime Minister ventured to do a thing that only the most courageous man would have done-he counselled four hundred infuriated ladies to exercise patience, and to devote themselves to the work of educating the country. No wonder they departed exclaiming that they were not satisfied with the result of the interview. They mustered their forces in Trafalgar Square, and from the foot of the Nelson Column hurled anathemas at the Government and its head. We believe that the women of England have a just grievance, though we cannot agree that their cause is as urgent as some other matters that demand redress. But we are also convinced that there is a very great difference of opinion in the country as to the advisability of enfranchising them, and the mode of action adopted by the most zealous amongst them has not tended to bring public opinion round to their side. There- fore we quite approve of the Prime Minister's attitude. A New Crusade.—We had thought Puritanism, like chivalry, was dead in England. How many times has its eulogy been recited on public plat- forms during late years, and those who bewailed its departure seemed to be convinced that it would return no more ? But it seems now that it is still alive, so much alive that a new gospel of crusade against it is being proclaimed, and the banner of deadly antagonism to it unfurled by men of light and leading. A league has been formed which describes itself as the Anti- Puritan League for the Defence of the People's Amusements. Among those who have already associated themselves with this league are G. K. Chesterton, Walter Crane, James Douglas, Stewart Headlam, Conrad Noel, and several other men whose names are known in literature and art. The circular which the promoters of this league have sent out is a document that ought to be carefully preserved for curiosity's sake. It is an onslaught upon the Temperance policy of the L.C.C., and upon the movement to save the people of England from the slough of drunkenness. Lest we be accused of pre- judice, here are the very words setting forth the objects of the league:—"The League will be obliged to oppose much that now goes by the name of 'Temperance Reform,' a name used to cover policies which are either utterly ineffective or stupidly oppressive." It will further combat the stupid hostility which our municipal rulers display towards the art of dancing, and not infrequently towards the drama itself." While recognising the necessity of securing to every citizen one day's rest in seven, it will resist all attempts to form a narrow and bitter Sabba- tarianism upon the democracy." Generally the League will aim at organising the forces which can be directed against coercive Puritanism." The project deserves notice were it only for its splendid audacity. The regenera- tion of England by alcohol and dancing is an idea worthy of Chestertonian paradox at its highest summit. Our only real regret in face of this movement is that it will give some ground for the foolish prejudice that literature and art can only flourish in the atmosphere of the pot- house and the saloon.

Am Gymry Llundain. YR HAF.Dyma ddiwedd Mai wedi dod, ac ymholiad pawb ar y tywydd oer yma yw,—Pa le mae'r haf? DYCHWELIAD.- Yr wythnos hon glaniodd Mr. E. Griffiths, Chelsea, yn y wlad hon ar ol bod ar daith ar draws Cyfandir America. Da genym ddeall ei fod yn llawer iawn gwell o ran iechyd ar ol ei seibiant pleserus. EISTEDDFOD CITY ROAD.Trodd yr wyl hon, a gynhaliwyd yn Mawrth diweddaf, allan yn llwyddiant perffaith, a deallwn fod yr elw dros 7 op. Go dda wir, fechgyn City Road CYMANFA'R PLANT.—Nos lau diweddaf cyn- haliwyd Cymanfa'r Plant o dan nawdd Undeb Ysgolion M.C. Llundain. Ceir manylion llawn yn ein rhifyn nesaf. DARLITH.-N os Fercher yr wythnos ddi- weddaf traddododd Mr. Rees, Carthusian Street, ddarlith ddyddorol yng Nghapel y Tabernacl ar Ei daith trwy Wlad Canaan a'r Aipht." Fel y sylwyd yn flaenorol yn ein colofnau bu Mr. a Mrs. Rees ar ymweliad a'r gwledydd hyn a manau eraill o gylch Mor y Canoldir yn ystod y gauaf diweddaf, ac 'roedd yn amheuthyn o beth cael gwrando ar Gymro yn gosod ei farn ar yr hyn a welodd ar ei ymweliad cyntaf a'r parthau hyn. Yn ychwanegol at hanes deniadol a llawer o ddesgrifiadau o'r golygfeydd a gaed ar y daith, yr oedd Mr. Rees wedi sicrhau nifer o ddarluniau swynol i ddangos y prif leoedd y bu ar ymweliad a hwynt. Llywyddwyd gan y Parch. Elvet Lewis, a chan fod cynulliad llawn yn y lie caed elw sylweddol tuagat leihau dyled y capel. Y CLWB.—Mae'r awdurdodau ynglyn a'r Clwb Cymreig yn dra llwyddianus gyda'r noson lawen, yr hon gynhelir bob nos lau yn y Clwb. Penodir rhai o'r pwyllgor i ofalu am y noson, a nos Iau yr wythnos ddiweddaf caed noson hapus o dan reolaeth Dr. Dan Thomas a Mr. Pritchard Jones, Regent Street. Yr wythnos hon gofalodd Mr. John Hinds am y trefniadau. Drwy'r nosweithiau hyn hyderir y ca'r clwb ychwanegiad mawr i'w aelodaeth ac y gellir, heb fod yn hir, sicrhau lie mwy canolog i gyfarfod ynddo a mwy hwyllls i'r aelodau sydd ar ymwel- iad byr a'r brifddinas. Y MEDDYGON.—Nos Wener yr wythnos ddiweddaf bu'r meddygon Cymreig yn cynhal eu cinio blynyddol yn y brifddinas, a daeth rhyw 60 o honynt ynghyd o dan lywyddiaeth Dr.