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OUR SHORT STORY.I
OUR SHORT STORY. I MAKING POPPA PAY. I By RADCLIFFE MARTIN. I For two years Arnold Wilkins had been engaged to Doreen Angus. It was a good, old-fashioned, tennis-club engagement. II the Government wishes to send up the mar- riage rate it will scatter tennis-courts over the land. Almost any girl looks marriage- able in white with a green sward back- ground. Mrs. Angus, who had planned the engagement months beforehand and had commented bitterly on the slowness of the Wilkins man, wept happy tears of surprise when the engagement was announced to ber. Mr. Angus did not weep. Under the pretence of taking the young man to look at the kitchen-garden he catechised him severely about his position, income, and pro- spects, and cautioned him that he must save his money. On principle, said Mr. Angus gravely, he strongly objected to a father paying for the furnishing of hie daughter's future home. All went well for two years. Arnold saved his money, dined with the Anguses every Sunday, and sat with his beloved either in the drawing-room or the summer-house two nights a week. Gradually friends were beginning to realise that the wedding-pre- sent era had arrived. The young couple's unpopularity was consequently rising to its aenith. Arnold Wilkins had spoiled his Sunday trousers by wandering through the lime-pit entrenchments builders leave round half-iinished villas. The happy hour was surely approaching, when the Rev. Pon- sonby Clyne was appointed to the curacy of the parish church. When it became known that dear, dark-eyed Mr. Clyne had in- herited ten thousand pounds from an aunt, and consequently had a great career in the Church before him, the interest of the young ladies in the parish work rose to fever heat. When Arnold Wilkins objected to attend- ing evensong every night on the ground that it cut short his courting evenings, she promptly broke off the engagement. She said she could not possibly marry a man who had no respect for the Church. The jilting came like a bolt from the blue to Arnold Wilkins. His engagement had become a habit, and it is a terrible thing for some men to break off a habit. There was a certain coldness shown to him by his acquaintances. All at once consolation came to the afflicted youth. He remembered that he had three hundred pounds saved. Instantly be became more lavish in his expenditure. He exchanged his third-class contract for a first-class. He dropped his pipe and took to smoking excellent cigars. He often took taxis home from the station in the evening. He displayed a partiality for half-guinea stalls at revues. He joined the most expen- sive golf-club in the district. He even in- dulged himself in a fur-lined overcoat, which people guessed must have cost fifty guineas, and actually cost twenty-five. In the meantime the curate was sympa- thising with Doreen Angus. He was given every opportunity. He was almost as regular at their supper table as she was at the Church services. Then one fatal evening there came a note from the curate stating that he had been offered a chaplaincy abroad, and would have to leave at once without even having time to say good-bye to his best friends. Mary Angus, who was at the candid flapper age, made the unfortunate remark, "You've missed him, after all, Doreen, and I'd bet Nellie Higgs a. box of chocolates you'd nab him by Easter," and was in- stantly sent to bed supperless for using grossly improper language. Then there came a dreadful silence of a month. It was broken by a postcard from the curate to Mr. Angus, saying how much he enjoyed his new life. Mr. Angus looked ominously across the table to Mrs. Angus. A few weeks later came another message from the curate saying that he was en- gaged. It would be a privilege to introduce his fiancee to the dear friends who had shown him such an ideal picture of married life in his first parish. "Well. I'm-" said Mr. Angus, adding » participle which ought to be excised from the vocabulary of churchwardens. "The idea," exclaimed Mrs. Angus. "Wanting to bring a girl here whom he can't have known long, and yet has got engaged to. She shall not come under this roof. I always thought him a very hot- headed, foolish young man, and I don't doubt now that he has ruined his life." Doneen Angus said nothing, and her flapper sister, feeling that the loss of break- fast would be a serious thing, suppressed the scathing comments that were on her lips. That night, as Mrs. Angus brushed out her hair, she remarked to her husband: "I think Doreen was a little rash in the way she treated young Wilkins." "What I thought all along," replied her husband, "but I wasn't allowed any say in the matter. Here you have a decent young fellow, good salary and prospects, and that silly girl throws him over for a fad." "I never like to contradict the dear girl, but I had grave doubts." "He must be doing very well. Men dop't buy overcoats as women buy fur coats. They are not such /fools. It means money. It's a pity they can't make it up." "I think you might make a point of being very polite to him." "I ddilt mind that, but I'm blessed if I'm going to ask him to get engaged to Doreen again. That's not a mans job. Two or three days later Mrs. Angus acci- dentally—she had missed him on the pre- vious evenings-met Arnold Wilkins as he came home from business. "Oh, Arnold!" said Mrs. Angus, bursting into tears. "What's the matter, Mrs. Angus?' said the startled youth. "I know Doreen would never forgive me if I said a word; but, Arnold, the poor child is breaking her heart. Just in a rash moment, because she was tired of waiting to be married, she ruined her own happi- ness." "Do you mean to say-" began the youth. "Not for worlds would I violate a daugh- ter's confidence, Arnold, but if you saw her—— No, I must not say another word. Confidences, you know. Good evening, my dear boy." That evening, strangely enough, Doreen was at the tennis club, and as she was going home alone met Arnold at the gate. In two minutes they were engaged again. When they reached the Angus's house the young couple received a hearty welcome. After supper, Mr. Angus took Arnold out for a smoke in the garden. "Look here, my boy, now you've got over this little hitch—which was a great grief to me, but there's no accounting for women -what I say is that you should get married at once. There's nothing like a marriage for settling a girl. Don't you agree with me that's the best courser1 "Yes, sir," said the youth, a trifle un- So the next day it spread all over the suburb that Arnold Wilkins and Doreen Angust were reconciled, and that the mar- riage was to take place at once. Malicious ladies remarked kindly to Mrs. Angus, 1 do hope that you'll be able to get dear Mr. Clyne back to marry them. It would be so nice, considering what friends Doreen and Mr. Clyne were." Only after a day or so Arnold Wilkins ap- proached Mr. Angus. "We've got the house, sir, but there's one little difficulty about the wedding." "What is it, my dear fellow?" "Well, you see, sir, I thought that the engagement was off altogether." "You don't mean to say that y<u've been carrying on with someone else?" "Oh, no, sir; but having no particular reason for saving money, I stopped saving it. In fact, I blued all my money in. I don't quite see how we are to furnish." Mr. Angus made bitter speeches on the rash folly and inexperience of youth. He said he had never heard of anything so preposterous in the whole of his life before. But the wedding was forthwith an. nounced. Something had to be done at once, however, and the miserable and un- happy Angus had to furnish the house im- mediately for his prospective son-in-law. Yes, they are quite happy in one of those canary-creeper, square-porch, white-painted houses. Mrs. Wilkins kisses her husband proudly as he starts off to business in the only fur overcoat in the row. Happy, too, is Mr. Wilkins, as he sits opposite his bride in the evenings, and reflects cheerfully that not only has he gained the girl of his heart, but he has never had to spend a single cent on house furniture.
ITOFFEE AND PROFITS.
TOFFEE AND PROFITS. Many are the fortunes that have been made in sweet-making. In the early stages of sweet-making, the old "hardbake," or treacle toffee, was the only luxury on which the children could spend their pennies, but many fo••tunes have since been made by in- ventions or improvements upon this humble recipe. A simple addition to an already well- known formula, which, judging by its popu- larity, must have made several fortunes, produced the American sweet known as "Candy Creams." The fact that no cream entered into their composition did not affect the name. They looked and tasted creamy, i so the public weiv. satisfied. The charm of this sweetmeat was due to an invention in toffee making; the addition of honey and maple sugar to the usual ingredients, which produced a novelty in the way of flavours. The mixture whilst hot was pulled by machines electrically driven, until it as- sumed a creamy tint. Then it passed through another machine, which pressed the plaatic toffee into the bullet-shaped t, creams." Chocolate in its early stages was a6 far from luxurious sweet. It was composed of cocoa and sugar, and being sold in very large bars for one penny, at once became popular. This was almost sinufltaneously improved by firms who conceived the idea of adding milk to the existing formula. The result was the confection now generally known as "milk chocolate." After the big penny bar of ordinary chocolate, the penny milk bar seemed absurdly small and thin; but the flavour caught on.
ITHE AGE OF THE CINEMA.I
I THE AGE OF THE CINEMA. I How many could guess correctly the afy ef the cinema? Had fate placed the reader on the pavement before a certain studio shop-window in Piccadilly, Loudon, W., on a certain day and at the right hoor, in the voar 1889, the tirst cinematograph or v "living-picture" display could have been Tintnessed free of charge. The proprietor and originator of that show was Mr. William Friese-Greene, ;who was born at Bristol in 1855. Mr. Greene came to London in 1885 and opened photographic studios ir several different localities, notably at West- bourne-grove. Sloane-square, Bond-street, Oxford-street, and Piccadilly, at which latter place the now historic exhibition took place. In the year 1888 celluloid became procur- able in thin sheets, and Mr. Greene wae opiick to realise that this material was just what was wanted as a vehicle to carry a long series of photographic pictures. He im- mediately set to work on the construction of an apparatus capable of passing tl!e film with intermittent motion behind an optical system, while the light could be eclipsed just at that moment when the film was in the act of passing from a feed spool to a second spool arranged to store up the film as fast as it had been exposed. This first camera proved a complete suc- cess, a.nd 'was publiolv exhibited at a meet- ing of the Bath Photographic Sooiety in 1890, together with a small projecting ma- chine based on a similar principle. The- British patent was applied for on June 21. 1889. It may thus be justly claimed that the high degree of perfection the cinema has attained is mostly duo to the energies vf English, brains.
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General Kemp has been elected chairman of the Nationalist Party in the Transvaal. At Biddenden, Kent, two men found the skeleton of a man, which has been identified as that of Fred Vane, who was gassed and wounded. in France. He has been missing since July 14. Syleham HaH, Suffolk, the ancient man. sion of the De La Poles, Earls of Suffolk, but occupied for many years by Mr. and Mrs. Palgrave Raven, has been almost de- stroyed by fire, the occupants making a hurried escape in their night attire.
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[ALL RIGHTS RESEBVBD. ] I [;Gî:OVEMENT. I I By FRED MADDISON. Spen Valley workers could have no better representative in Parliament than Sir John Simon. What is more, his return would be a national gain, in which Labour would share to the full. There is no greater need at the present moment than a much stronger Opposition in Parliament. It was an advantage to have Mr. Arthur Hender- son back, and the Liberals of Widnes helped to secure that result. The Spen Valley Labour Party might well act in the same loyal way to the Progressive cause, and that without any surrender on either side of independence. But, one fears, there is little likelihood of Spen Valley Labour leaders showing a similar restraint to that of the Widnes Liberals, and the decision must be left to the electors. West Riding workers should be eager to seize the opportunity of returning a statesman who is of the first rank, and one who has shown at a great crisi s that he can give up office for a deep conviction. THE ENDING OF CIVILIAN DOLES. No one has spoken more strongly against doles than Mr. Clynes, who realises the demoralising effect they have had on many of the workers. Civilians stand on a) different footing in this matter to soldiers. 1 Tho-se engaged in the production of war material were, in the main, gainers by the terrible conflict which meant to the fighters j a veritable hell. It seems to me that the Government cannot fairly be accused of me-aiiness when for a year it has continued substantial out-of-work pay. This has been done until the number unemployed has been reduced to a comparatively low limit. The labour Party's contention that the Govern- ment ought tom have found work for this remnant needs to be carefully considered. So far as it means that it has failed to re- move restrictions on trade it is sound, but to the extent that it is a demand for work or pay it is fallacious. That way lies the servile State. I THE LACK OF PREPARATION. There is, however, a strong case against the Government on the old count-failure to prepare for the inevitable. Just as it made the consumers pay a much higher price for coal than was warranted by the cost of pro- duction and then delayed bringing in the promised Bill for the limitation of owners' profits, so now we have the dole for civilians stopped without anything in readiness to mitigate the evil of unemployment. The Minister of Labour talks about the exten- sion of the National Insurance Act, but even that is not ready, whilst he seems to have no idea of anything else. It has be- come clearer every day that to, associate the State directly with unemployment is a mis- take. Instructed opinion is moving in the direction of making each industry re- sponsible for its own unemployment, and this is on the lines of the partnership of the workers, which means sharing in both gains and losses. But it is hopeless to expect any lead from the Government. THE SUPREME VALUE OF THE LEAGCE OF NATIONS. Liberals are proud that amongst respon- sible statesmen the first word about a League of Nations as one of the aims of the war came from Mr. Asquith, then Premier. It was before ex-President Taft in America, or Lord Bryce here, had began to formulate plans for such a League. At Dublin, before the war had lasted two months, Mr. Asquith outlined, in a single sentence of matchless conciseness, the basic principles on which the future relations of States must rest. It was the League -of Nations in embryo. Un- fortunately, many workers, like other classes, do not realise the supreme import- ance cf this international institution which on January 1, it is now stated, will com- mence operations. It seems too remote to mean anything, but trade unionists, at any rate, can hardly miss the significance of what is being done at Washington to level up Labour conditions, especially with regard to the employment of children and women. And this conference is part of the machinery of the League. DR. ADDISON'S FAILURE. Dr. Addison's failure as regards housing is now proved, and it is a melancholy busi- ness. No Coalition Minister returned as a Liberal has gone further from his allegiance tv his old political faith or shown less re- spect for his old chief. After all the sup- posed preparations for the new world of Mr. Lloyd George which he made as Minister of Reconstruction, he had to confess that only 124 houses had been completed, and 5,382 were in course of erection. This is "wait and see" with a vengeance. We were pro- mised at the election some 100,000 new houses in the first year towards the half million needed, and now we have this miser- able result. That the problem is a very diffi- cult one may be fully admitted, but that was perfectly well known when the Coalition Ministers angled fbr votes by making im- possible promises. This collapse of the Government's scheme is a serious matter. Things could not have been worse if Dr. Addison had not used a single sheet of paper for one of his many fine plms. PREMIER'S APPEAL TO THE BUILDING TRADE. I No fair-minded man can take any objec- tion to the appeal which the Premier made in the housing debate to the workers in the building trades. He was quite justified in stressing the obvious truth that houses can only be produced by human labour. More- over, as he put it, this is a question of building houses for workmen, and the appeal was to them to help their own un- housed fellow workmen. All this, of course, is but platitude, but it needs enforcing. If the statements which have long been made as to the decreased output of bricklayers are true, or anywhere near true, then there i. a bad conspiracy against the working-class community by a section of it. But these allegations of slacking are denied by the unions affected, and they are demanding an inquiry. It ought to be instituted at once. In the meantime, why cannot the rules as to piecework be relaxed, say, for a year, so that the serious shortage in houses might be considerably eased ? THE ANTI-DUMPING BILL. The so-called Dumping Bill is to en- counter the common opposition of Indepen- dent Liberals and the labour Party, and some, at least, of the Coalition Liberals are sure to put their Free Trade principles fore allegiance to the Premier and the arti- ficial combination of which he is the head. Camouflaged though thia measure will be, it is a beginning of that Tariff "Reform" which the Tory majority in the House of Commons so ardently desire. If, as is gener- ally understood, the selling price, and not the cost of production, in foreign countries is to be the test of dumping, the cloven hoof of Protection will be too apparent to deceive any Free Trader. The only case that can be made out for interference is where sweat- ing is proved, but that in practice would be well-nigh impossible. Besides, that side of the problem is best left to the operation of the La.bour organisation of the League of Nations. The Dumping Bill marks th-e Premier's surrender to his Tory allies.
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After a three days' trial at the Old Bailey, Dudley Francis Billing was sen- tenced to a year's imprisonment, and Russell Vaughan, to five months' imprison- ment, on a charge of trying to obtain ■ £ 10,000 from Mr. Thomas Miles, shipper, of Sackville-strect, Piccadilly, by fraud in con- nection with transactions in RolIs-Royct cars. Laval Uni verity, the leading French- Canadian educational institution in Canada, has been partly destroyed by fire. In the Deal and Walmer Angling Asso- ciation's Festival Mr. Thomas Hattemore, of Brussels, won the Deal Silver Challenge Cup and silver replica. Mrs. Juson Keir. a local residect, woo the L--ubes' Challopivt Cup.
- OUR LONDON LETTER. I
OUR LONDON LETTER. I I [From Our Special Correspondent.] I tondoig. With the return of Lady Astor as Member of Parliament for the Sutton Division of Plymouth the British Parliament gains ita first member of the gentler sex. It is true that a lady of Sinn Fein opinions was le- I turned by an Irish constituency at the General Election. It is, however, a moot point whether she is a member; first, be- cause she has never taken her seat and the oath, and, secondly, because there is reason to doubt whether she is qualified to do so, as she is stated not to be a British citizen. Lady Astor is, in any case, the first woman to be returned and to sit for a constituency in Great Britain. It is an event of historic significance in the evolution of our demo- cratic institutions, and in the progress of the emancipation of women from sex dis- abilities. The considerable victory which Lady Astor won for the Coalition is to some extent obscured by the larger significance of her election. Her return seems to show that those people were wrong who predicted that women electors would not vote for a woman, for there can be no doubt that Lady Astor 1 received a large proportion of the women's I vote in Plymouth. That constituency has honoured itself in a unique fashion By elect- ing a woman to represent it, and her con- duct of her election campaign affords con- vincing evidence that Lady Astor, although the first woman member, has very little to learn about politics from the masculine assembly in which she will be in a minority of one. I LUDENDOKFF ON LLOYD GEORGE. » One fact emerges with outstanding pro- minence from all the reminiscences, recol- lections, and apologias written by German statesmen and soldiers since the end of the war. That fact is the inestimable contribu- tion made by Mr. Lloyd George to the vic- tory of 4he Allies. I have previously quoted in this column some German tributes to the Prime Minister. That of Ludendorff may now be added. In his recently published "War Memoirs" the latter refers to the "extraordinary will-power" of the Allies in the critical months of 1917. "Lloyd George," he says, "was determined to win. He held England in hand." Nor is it only the war services of Mr. Lloyd George that have evoked Ludendorff's unwilling admiration. Interviewed by a British journalist the other day (Mr. F. G- Roberts, of the "Daily Express "), the German soldier said in re- ference to present political condtions in Ger- many: "Ah if we had statesmen like your Lloyd George or Clemenceau things would certainly look brighter for Germany." The Germans were bad psychologists, but they were experts in personnel. They had keen eyes for men whose powers and influence were dangerous to their plans, and they all agree that among such men Mr. Lloyd George took the first place. THE ANTI-D UMMNG 'BILL. I My readers will be well advised to pay little attention to the current gossip about divisions of opinion within the Coalition with reference to the Anti-Dumping Bill. A provision against dumping was made in the Paris Resolutionc, which, I need hardly recall, were passed during Mr. Asquith's Premiership. The majority of Coalition members are inclined to look at the matter not as one of fiscal controversy at all, but as a question of taking the best action to prevent the recurrence of such conditions as obtained before the war, to the detriment of our industries., and to the hindrance, as it turned out, of our warfare. Some of those who now urge the Government on this ques- tion have gone much farther than the Anti- Dumping Bill goes with regard to after-war fiscal arrangements. Let the reader consider these word3 The country, I think, has the right to say that Free Trade with the enemy after the war is out of the question, and I con- fess that I know no greater disservice that could be done to Free Trade in this coun- try than the suggestion to be made by Free Traders that there shall be Free Trade with the enemy after the war. If I have any knowledge of the trend of pub- lic opinion, I should say that the party which proposed this would be swept out of office, and that the man who proposed it would never in his lifetime have a chance of representing a constituency. These observations were made in the House of Commons on August 2, 1916, by Sir Leo Chiozza Money. OPPORTUNITIES FOR EX-SBBVICE MEN. I A typical example of what is being done for ex-service men is, I think, the arrange- ment which has been made for the benefit of fishermen who served their country, and, incidentally, served if very well under very trying conditions of service, during the war. The Cabinet has decided that some of the trawlers that rendered so much good service as minesweepers and otherwise shall be put at the disposal of ex-service fishermen. I understand that 200 trawlers are to be handed over to a company composed of the latter, and that drifters are to be put up for disposal to fishermen on terms that will permit of them being purchased by instal- ments. As I have said, this is typical of the concern which is being shown for the welfare of ex-service men. I am glad to know also that business men arc responding with great heartiness to the appeals that have been made to them in the interests of unemployed ex-officers, and that, as a conse- quence, the by no means easy problem of finding suitable employment for these gal- lant men is in process of what seems likely to be reasonably rapid solution. A. MODERN PURITAN I Mr. Arthur Porritt, the well-known Non- conformist journalist, has written a most admirable aud interesting book, a copy of which I have received from the publishers, Messrs. Morgan and Scott. "The Strategy of Life" is Mr.. Porritt's theme, and he has written specially for young men. The result is a volume of rare charm and usefulness, in which there is expounded choicely and with a wealth of illustration a healthy and vigorous philosophy of living. Mr. Porritt is a practical idealist; he knows what life is as well as what it ought to be, and, while his book is entirely free from anything like preaching or censorious narrowness, it is full of sound advice. The world has out- grown the old Puritanism, but the state of society to-day suggests that there is room for a new Puritanism less rigid in its pro- scriptions and more scientific in ;ts view of human nature. A clean mind in a sound body both well occupied, whether in work or recreation, is what Mr. Porritt sets before the young man of to-day as things more to be dooired than gold. It is long since I have read such a sane and stimulating book, and I trust it will be read as widely as it de- serves to be.
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At Tonbridge market a calf was sold for E20 10s. The previous record was £17. To stop profiteering in timber, the Government of Victoria. (Australia) is estab- lishing State saw-mills. Another XI,000 has been received from the representatives of the late Lord Strath- cona for the endowment of an Institute of Parasitological Research at Cambridge University. L.C.C. refused to prohibit entirely em- ployment of children under 14 years of age. It was mentioned at a meeting of the L.C.C. that there are 1,000 vacancies on the permanent staff of the elementary schools, though there are 600 teachers employed in a temporary capacity.
THINGS THOUGHTFUL .1
THINGS THOUGHTFUL .1 RECREATION. He that will make a good use of any part of his life must allow a large portion of it to recreation.—Locke. Every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your Qwn making.—Ben Jonson. It is only a foolish shipman's tale, A theme for the poet's idle page; But etill when the mists of Doubt prevail, And we lie bccalmed on the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voice of the children gone before, Drawing the soul to its anchorage. —Bret Harte. Life has two ecstatic moments, one when the spirit catches sight of truth, the other when it recognises a kindred spirit.—Victor Hugo. WHEN GOD CALLS. There is no knowing whither God might call us, if we would only keep our minds, by His help, free and true to hear His bidding when it comes. He may have for any one of us a task, a trust, far higher than we can ask or think. And on the drift and tone which our minds are now acquiring it may depend whether, when the time comes, we recognise our work or not; whether we press forward with the host of God, or dully fall away it may be, into the misery of an aimless, listless life.—Bishop Paget. I ROAD-MAKING. Answer, soul of mine—which way Haet thou made a road to-day? Hast thou followed Love's sure chain Over hill and over plain? Whichsoever choice thou'st made, There another road. is laid- Not a transient, fading trail, But a path that shall not fail. Evermore some foot shall stray O'er the road thou mad'st this day. Ah, let each of us beware How his thoughts and motives bear! Every road that we shall chooee, Other pilgrim feet will use. Some will follow where we lead j Long as life shapes life, indeed. Have a brother's care, and pray God to mark thy road each day. —James Buckham. NECESSITY. Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessi- ties, imaginarv necessities, are the greatest Dozenage men call fut upon the Providence af God, and make pretences to break known rules by.—Cromwell. If we would be happy, healthy, and pro- sperous, we must, "chase brave employment with a naked 6word throughout the world." A SCORNFUL JEST. Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate irfsver wounds more deep the generous heart, IThan when a blockhead's insult points the dart. —Johnson. DETERMINATION. There is no power like the might of a great determination. Nothing less than the divine can match it. lvhen a thousand wires are welded into one, they forge the Damascus steel that can divide the gos- samer or cut the iron bar asunder. And when all the energies of a man are molten into one force by the potent heat of a sub- lime purpose, they shape a blade invincible by aught but the flashing sword of Almightiness. Buxton says, the longer I live the more I am certain that the great difference between men-between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insig- nificant-is energy, invincible determination —a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory! That quality will do anything that can be done in this world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature a man without it. All labour for their wages: like a stream Life hastens onwards; and for good or ill Each day adds to the store, though as a dream It hurries by. Oh! plant in me the Will 3 Quicken! exalt' refine !-my bosom fill With earnest diligence, whate'er I do! Life swells the onward river-nought is still. —I. Williams. What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes? REPENTANCE. I When a man has repented of his sins and mistakes, that is not enough. Kick them out, do not keep them like so many mum- mies and corpses in the house. When you have done wrong, and found it out, and changed to right, and have rectified the ways in which your wrongdoing has affected anybody else, that is the end: the sum is complete; you have no business to come back and pit on your old gravestones.— Henry Ward Beecher. GEMS OF VERSE. I True sage is he Who doubts all doubt, and takes The Soul on trust. —Mackay. His Art or Science crowns the Happy One Who finds a Use for what Men thought had none. Be fearless, others will confide no less When vou are confident of your success, The only obstacle is indecision. —Faust. Why thus longing, thus for ever sighing For the far-off, unattained and dim, While the beautiful all round thee lying Offers up its low perpetual hymn. —Servall. It is not always enough to strike while the iron is hot; sometimes you must first strike until the iron is hot. CONSCIENCE. How beautifully was its office set forth in the ring which, according to an Eastern tale, a great magician presented to his prince! The gift was of inestimable value, not for the dia-monds and rubies and pearls that gemmed it, but for a rare and mystic property in the metal. It sat easily enough in ordinary circumstances; but so soon as its wearer formed a bad thought or wish, designed or concocted a bad action, the ring became a monitor. Suddenly contract- ing, it pressed painfully on the finger, warn- ing him of sin. The ring of that fable is just that conscience which is the voice of God within us, which is His law written on the fleshy tablets of the heart.—Dr. Guthrie.
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Mr. Forster said that it is impossible to give war gratuity en discharg e to all mem- bers who have served in the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps. Defalcations amounting to < £ 5,000 were said to have been discovered in the accounts of John William Hewitt, cashier, of the Manchester Corporation tramways, who was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. Mr. Churchill told the House of Commons that the information at the disposal of the War Office did not support the report that there are hidden in the Black Forest, South Germany, stores of guns and munitions suffi- cient for a great army.
IOTHER MEN'S MINDS.
I OTHER MEN'S MINDS. I I do not deal in fuel.-Duke of Atholl. HEALTH THE WEALTH. What is wealth when health is gone- Mr W. Coleman (Keighley). BRITISH LABOUR. You will find British labour is no bugbeal when it comes into its own.—Bishop of Win- chester. UP OR DOWN? 1 Lottery bonds will bring the British Treasury to the level of Monte Carlo. Mr. H. Samuel. I PUTTING ON THE BRAKE. The inevita,ble effect of mass production is to put a brake on rapid improvement.— Mr. H. C. B. Underdown. I OPEN TO ARGUMENT. There is no reluctance on the par-t of em- ployers to give Labour a better place in the sun.—Sir Vincent Caillard. THE PROLIFIC WRITER. I do not mind sitting down to dinner with those who have written more than they have read.—Mr. Birrell. FLOCK OF IDEALS. The air is full of high ideals.—Acrhdeacon of Sheffield. WHERE THEY DIVERGE. England is at the parting of the ways.— Bishop of Peterborough. I WATCH CLEVERNESS. I Cleverness without character is a curse.- Alderman Sir Charles Wakefield. I OUR LIMPETS. I Permanent officials have no more concep- tion of Empire than a dog has.—Mr. Lloyd I Harris. INQUIRY UNNECESSARY. I I am not in favour of an official inquiry as to who wanted the war and who did not. —Italian Premier. I KILLING TUBERCULOSIS. The question of the tubercular soldier is now being dealt with with extraordinary efficiency.-Dr. H. Ellis (Middlesborough). I THE POOR MIDDLE-CLASS. "Capital and labour have both got guns; we have not got a gun at all."—tapt ■Green to the Faraiam Middle-Class Union I SACK THE LOT!  Instead of challenging us (spiritualists) they ought to be in sackcloth and ashes— bishops, deans, and the whole lot of them.— Sir A. Conan Doyle. I THE HEALTHY HUN. In 1914, even the all-knowing Germanf admitted that 30 per cent, of the inmates of their celebrated sanatoria were not tubercu- lous.—Prof. Rist (of Paris). I KEEP ENTHUSED. .It would be a thousand pities if the extra- ordinary enthusiasm for voluntary work called forth by the war were to be allowed to die down.—Sir Arthur Stanley. I HARDLY NECESSARY. I I should be glad to die in order tibat the Peace Treaty may be ratified. -F'resident Wilson. I OUR GLORIOUS NAVY. I The fact remains that, in spite of miser- < able ineptitude, the Navy won. the war.— Lord Fisher. I POSSIBLY! Making munitions may be more profitable I than picking pockets.—Mr. Mead (West London magistrate). I NOT THE RIGHT METHOD. Increased production will not be obtained by screeching out slackers" to the workers.—Mr. J. Stuiaxt Bunning. I NOT TOO PRESSING. I We give Afghanistan our friendship with pleasure, but we shall not force ourselves upon her.—Lord Chelmsford (Viceroy of India). DEMOCRATIC AMERICA. Your institutions, your ways of life, and your aims are as democratic .as our own.- The Prince of Wales (in America). WASHED OUT! I -Liberalism has washed its hands of Mr. Churchill.—Lieut. J. J. O'Neill (Preston's I prospective candidate). DORA THE DEEP OXE. I It would take very nearly a lifetime tc make oneself familiar with the whole of the regulations of Dora.—Sir Frederick Ban bury. S'TUDY OR WORE? i Why should children need to work?— Major Haden Guest, L.C.C. I CHARMED COUNTRIES. Bolshevism will never spread to Catholic Ic?ountries.-Mr. Hilaire Belloc. [ A NATIONAL PROBLEM. I Manufacturers must realise that education is a national problem.Sir Robert Hadfield. I A MENTAL REVOLUTION. I The change in public opinion on education an fairly be called a revolution.—Sir Robert Blair. I I CRIME OF PERJURY. There is no more serious crime than com- I mitting perjury in a court of justice.— Judge Atherley Jones, THE TUBERCULOSIS DANGER. I Something like a quarter of the deaths in this country which follow the birth and rearing of children are due to tuberculosis. —Dr. T. N. Kelynack. ROAD REPAIRS. I For the next few years we thall have to face an expenditure of £ 40.000,000 a year on roads, as compared with EI8,000,000 in 1914. —Mr. W. Rees Jeffreys.
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Clubs affiliated to the Northumberland Union have decided to purchase a brewery. Ramsgatc's first Labour magistrate is Councillor Richjrrd Earle, local secretary of the N.U.R. Brentford Workhouse inmates, in spite of opposition from teetotallers on the Board of Guardians, are to have beer or stout with their Christmas dinner for the first time for several years. Major James Thomas Byford McCudden, V.C., D.S.C., M.M., M.C. and bar, the most famous of all the great British air fighters, died intestate. The estate has now been proved at t266 14s 3d., and letters of ad- ministration granted to hie father.
I FUN AND -FANCY.
I FUN AND FANCY. In telling your troubles you just watte time that might be spent 1D making them lighter. Being absent-minded isn't so bad if it enables you to forget your troubles. Mr. Knagg: "I feel like giving you » piece of my mind." Mrs. Knagg: "Don't do it; you need it all!" Mrs. A.: "Maud is progressing by leaps and bounds in her piano practice." Mr A.: "I thought she couldn't make all that noiise with her hands alone i" Dolly: "Did Jim kiss you last night?" Daisy: "Of course he didn't' Why do you ask such a qupstion" Dolly: he told me he liked your cheek." Husband: "That new maid is oertainly quiet. One would never know that she was about the place." Wife: "She isn t. She left this morning." Diner: "Waiter' Bring me a knife for the butter." Waiter: "Yes. sir." Diner and, waiter, a revolver for- the chc." Johnny: "I wonder what your father will sav when I a-^k him for your is.nd. Winnie: "Don't worry about that, dear. He rehearsed it with me this morning, and he does it beautifully." "Hair very thin on top, sir," said the barber, suggestively. "Very glad tc' hear it grunte d Snapley. Hate fat hair myself." And the barber said no rc-ore. "You seem very severe with your chil- dren." "Oh, sir, I am the kindest mother un earth 1 I always chloroform my children before spanking them." The Poet (dreamily): "I wonder what be- comes of the stars in the daytimer' The Actor: "Well, I know a lot of them that sleep till noon." The old man is giving Bill a liberal education." "Yes, and Bill is certainly giving the old man an education in liberality." "I suppose you haven't got such a thing as a Bradbury about you, old chapr "No. perhaps I haven't; but you needn t rub it perhaps I ha;-en't; but ?7uu nee d n 't rub it "Which side do you wish your hair rombed?" asked the barber, who appeared to be trying to make a hole in the customer's head with his comb. "On the ouubjde, jdease." Wife: "I want to talk to vou about sorue things we need for the house." Husband: "What are they?" "Well, to begin with, dear, don't you think we need a new cos- tume?" # "Do fishes grow fast, Jimmy? "Some of them do. My father caught one last year that grow? an inch e,er- time he tells about tha-t -row,, an lech c-ver-v time be tells about District Visitor: "Well, one must do something for the suffering poor." Friend: "But are you sure they do suftcr" Dis- trict Visitor: "Oh. yes I visit them and talk to them for hours at a time," "He: "My dear, I have just paid off the mortgage on our house." She: "I'an P--o, glad. Now you can put on another and buy a motor-car. Two cats were about to have a scrap. "Let's have an understanding before we be- gin," said one. "About what" asked the other. Is it to be a duel to the death, or shall we make it the best three lives out of five ?" I Don't cry over spilt milk. Call the cat. It might a6 well be made use of. "Poor and broken-down as I am;' said the man in seedy attire, "with all the marks of misfortune upon me, there was a time, long ago, when I rode in my carriage "Y es," said the listener; "but I 'spect your mother pushed it;" She: "How dared you tell my father that you have a prospect of £1,000 a year?" He: "Well, I have, ;f I marry you, iiaven't I?" Dora: "I hate that Smarte gi. She ?ust gave me a sial)  avs ?ave me a slap at my age. i\l?dde; "Says you look old?' "No, oays I'm beginning to iook young." "I would go to the end of thi- earth for you," declared the ardent lover. "Y but would", you stay there?" asked the girl un- feelingly. Daily: "They say that the art of chasing silver is a yen- dillieuil one." Borrowit: "I know it is. i've been trying ail the day to find a man who would lend me haif-a- crown. "Why, Johnny, how much you look like your father!' remarked a visitor to a four- year-old. "Yes," answered Johnny, with an air of resignation, "that's what everybody says, but I can't help it." Shop Assistant: "This i* the most correct writing-paper fur polite correspondence." Customer: "But 1 wish to write to my hus- band." l' 'cn'f' T. Young Wife im the country): "This is a nice place you've brought me to! We've been here for four months and I haven't, seen a new face!" Hubby: "No new face! Why, my dear, we've changed our maid eig-ht times!"
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HOME-MADE GRINDER.I
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I STAGE STRIKES.j
I STAGE STRIKES. It is not frequent that one hears of an actors' strike nowadays, but the weapon of the strike has often been used by actors in the past. In 1907 a dispute .between the artists a ad proprietors of some London music halls resulted in the former going on strike and even acting as pickets. j The proprietors of Dmitry Lane decided to increase the prices for benefit performances same years ago. The actors objected and invited public support; so did the manage- ment. In the end the Lord Chaonberlain was asked to act as arbitex, and his decision went against the actors. In 1879 Drury Lane Theatre had to shut up through the actors going suddenly on strike. Again, in the early forties of last censtuxy, the manager at His Majesty's HheaJtere re- placed the singer Tamburini by Coletti from Milan. The other artists organised a demon- stration against the intruder, who could not make himself heaord against the uproar which greeted his appoaraJice. Finally he was chased from the staige and his nival re- called.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FOOD.1
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FOOD. 1 In ordel to assist the difficulties of living when cost is high, it is suggested that national laboratories of human nutrition should be used. At least a quarter of the income of a nation is devoted to the pur- chase of food. Lack of nourishment is a fruitful cause of social disorders, as has been made amply evident by recent events in Europe. It is a matter of the utmost im- portance to investigate thoroughly the whole subject of food supply and to apply on a national scale the information obtained. People must be cautioned against ill- balanced diets and over-eating as well as aided in solving the problem of getting enough food. There is a vast field, says Pro- fessor Graham Luck, in the 6tudy of the psychology of food. The Jews are told as children that pork is unfit for food, and they rarely conquer their repugnance to it. The English are told as children that maize is food for pigs and persist in their unfounded prejudice against it." The proposed labora- tories should keep a complete statistical record of the available food supplies of the several countries, and be in a. position to advise the governments as to the best wave of making such supplies adequate to the needs of the people.