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Children's Corner. ¡ BY UNCLE JOHN I We will begm to-day with a note from one who lives quite near the Children's Corner." 5U, VVind-street, Swansea.—Dear Uncle John,—This is the fiict time 1 have ever written to you. 1 would be pleased 1..0 see illy name in your "corner." 1 am sending you a lew riddles, such as:- What sort of a vegetable is it that a sailor never likes?—A leak (leek). What goes up dry and comes down wet?—An umbrella. What gofbs up white and comes down j-ellow r-An egg. -1 remain, your niece, Mary Stiles (age 10). The next letter contains quite a budget. Here it is:- or RIDDLES AND RHYME. I Mary Ann Webber, 19, Penybryn-road, Gorseinon, age 11 years fuur months, writes:—Dear Uncle John,—1 have the pleasure of writing to you for the first time. I am sending a few riddles and a piece of poetry. Why is the letter w like a lady's muff ?--Because it makes arm warm. What bird sits at every table P— Swallow. Why is the letter A like the honey- siipkle ?-Because it is followed by the B. 1 am neither tiesh nor bone, yet I Iihvp four lingers and one thumb. What am I P —A glove. Barber: Now, Tommy, do you want a hair cut?—Tommy: Oh, no, sir, I wanT all of them cut. GIVE OTHERS A HELP., I ijtte has some wonderful lessons to teach To those who are willing to learn; Heights that are noble and lofty to reach Though the method may sometimes b? stern; Though the task may be hard and your progress seem slow. And the teits may be often severe, With plenty or courage and patienco and pluck You'll win your way through, never fear Muriel Pugh, 1.3-1, Llangyfelach-road Brynhyfryd, ivrites.t- Why is the suu like the Union Jack f- Becauso no powel" on earth can pull it down. Which is the best way of going to tho dog??—By following the hounds. Why does a man with one eye see more than a man with two?—Because he can see your two and you, car. only see his one SHORT STORY FROM COCKETT. I I he very absent-minded professor bad I taken his little daughter, aged three, with him un an errand to t$e post office. Ho I came back without her. Where u' I)ot ? the mother asked. "Dot?" ex- claimed the professor. Why, dear me. she must lie still in the post office. I sal her on the counter with the parcels while 1 was writing my telegrams, and told her she was not to stir." Dot hadn't stirred. When the professor went back- he found her still sitting just where he had left her. It's all right, daddy ciear. she gnid, when he apologised. TTf took the parcels, but he d¡dn't talik, me. I s'pose that was 'cause I hadnt been addressed "—Linda Bowen, No. 1. Duffryn-terrace. Cwmbach-road, Cockett T'forestfach, Swansea. v Evelyn Mary Thomas (age 101 years) Arvon House, Trinity-street, Gorseinon writes:— How many sides has St. Pauli, Cathedral?—Two sides, the inside and the outsrde. What beam is it that a carpenter cannot saw through?—A sunbeam. What is it which goes when we are going and yet goes when we stop ?-A watch. Sissie: What would you do if our boat were to fill with water?—Sailor Jim: Oh. iust bore a hole in the bottom and let the water out."
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The Day's Gossip. -1 Leader Office, Wednesday. Election apathy was not confined to Swansea. It was general over the coun- try. The diarist of the Westminster Gazette declares that the clearest les- son of the election appears to be that the elector continues to be extraordinarily apathetic when it comes to taking thq trouble to record his vote, however ener- 1 getic he may be in denouncing the people whom other and less lndiiferent electors have put into power. Mr. Gilbertson's Speech. Swansea Metal Exchange has become used to Mr. F. W. Gilbertson's masterly surveys of the economic outlook. So it showed little enthusiasm during his calm, academic reading of the notable speech which we gave almost verbatim in these columns yesterday. It smiled knowingly when, near the end, he spoke of little bureaucratic ways of transport control, and at the close broke into warm ap plause, renewed when it was suggested that his utterance should be printed for wide circulation. Scholarships. I Mr. T. J. Itees is, I gather, in London on the first meeting of the Departmental Committee on scholarships to which he has been appointed. The question is a very interesting one, especially in so far as it concerns the interchang, bility ofJ scholar-hips, which is at present in force in Wales when students remove from one area to another. It is hoped that the net result of the committee's deliberati n.- may be its application throughout the United Kingdom. Swansea has already done something in this direction with English education authorities, but all of them are not willing to forego the fees on the mere understanding that when their students remove to Swansea they shall resume their training at no cost to the committee of their home town. Make It So.' I A Naval padre was talking yesterday about naval catch-phrases such as Sailors don't care-not real sailors." "Carry on!" is understood t. have originated in the Navy. The irp-to- da6JC phrase in the Navy,' 'he explained, ,it; corresponds to Carry on' in th0 Army—is 'Make it so! Feeding the Land. I About 15 tons of basic slag have been purchased for the Corporation Farm on the way to Sketty, and it will be laid down in a week or two. This comes from th3 Cwnifelin Works, and later on, the land will be treated to a quantity of superphosphate of lime from Vivian's. Tiio season before last, a considerable amount of agricultural salt was obtained from the Gower Co-operative Society's stor 1 at lieynoldston. Last season basic slag and agricultural salt was supplied through Mr .Perkins, of Bellevue-street. The salt, I hear, was found vev- benefi- cial, and the experience of the Corpora- tion officials was such as to persuade a large number of the surrounding farmers to dress their land with salt. But, after all, there is nothing like good old stable manure, and. as soon as they get a motor lorry, or can obtain non-prohibitive haulage rates, it is intended to utilise the 400 to ;;0.0 tons of street sweepings which have collected in the Corporation yards. All this, which, by the way. is said to be in good condition, is available for any allotment society, free of cost except for the haulage. The Philosopher." I read with some amazement in the I Morning Post yesterday, in a descrip- tion of the Dutph and Flemish pictureill i-i Room XX of the National Gallery- ¡ opened yesterday-that Of the contents tho most interesting is the recently ao quired Philosopher," by Rembrandt, in which the nation has strengthened its re- presentation of that master by filling up the gap that existed in his earlier period." Recently acquired is rather rich, for the Philosopher has been on exhibition, in another room for a considerable time. I remember f was held up by it last year, and its power has drawn me often since to the room wherein it was displayed. The picture is almost all in deep shade, and the brooding figure of the sage, only roughly suggested, stands out against the dull light of a window I should say that it is strongest Rembrandt of the early period. Visitors to the gallery should also look for the two important frag- ments of Edouard Manet's' famous pic- ture, The Execution of Maximilian," of which the finished picture, after a trium- phal tour in the United States, passed into the collection of M. Denis Cochin, and from him into the Museum at Mann- heim. The two fragments which the National Gallery has been fortunate enough to secure are in Room XXI, and comprise (1) the soldier to the extreme right loading his gun, and (2) the six soldiers in the act of firing at the unfor- tunate Monarch. I A Question of Manners. I If the following note, which led to family jars last night in one household- riot necessarily mine, mark!—causes a tithe as much excitement among my readers as it.created in the aforesaid case. that will be my justification for quoting it from the Daily Mail." Two women and a man. all strangers to one another, started a railway journey in the same compartment. The man. with due grace, asked leave to smoke, and it was graciously accorded. „ At the first stop another man entered, and. saying, You don't mind smok- ing?" pulled out a pipe forthwith. The answer was a grunt which said as plain as a whisper in the ear, We don't like your manners or your tobacco, but haven't the courage to say No.' Presently more men entered the carri- age. No leave was asked, and smoking became general. The bolder of the two women boiled ob- viously for a while, and at last jerked out to one of the later offenders. This is not a smoking carriage." But people were smoking when I came in," he said. A very acid They asked leave ended further controversy. The smokers left the compartment at the first opportunity, and doubtless pre- sently discussed the absurdity of the rail- ways in allotting so few smoking carri- ages. The women stayed to enlarge on the degeneration of men's manners. Both perhaps had a grievance. I Owls of Bishopston. Tuwhi;, tuwhoo! Is there a more eerie night-sound than the hooting of tho owls in a wood? I waf coming throngh Bishopston Valley one night this week sbort1v aftf\1' rtwkhl'.rl fallen and the shadows were flitting' over the lowly-murmuring stream. There seemed to be a whole colony of owls in the vicinity, and their mourn''al <"<tl!ing seemed distressfully in keenins, with a s'l non evening sky and a watery-ringed half-moon. It recalled the curious little sons: of Tennyson's: Alone, and warming her fivo wits. The white owl in the belfry sits, Tuwhit, tuwbu, towho-o-o, tuwhit. And a water-rat slithered long the bank and disappeared with a tiny plop into the stream. The dead leaves and the fitful wind ali added to the weirdness of one's impression. How now. Reamer." cannot vou recall a similar autumn l scene ?
CONSUL S CHILD.
CONSUL S CHILD. I Swansea Doctors' Action for Fees. Father Loses Case. At Swansea County Court the ad- journed case came on in which M. An sal do, Italian Consul, was sued for medical fees due to Dr. Alban Evans and Dr. Veall. Dr. Evans claimed A6 10s., and Dr. Veall. Mr. Villiers Meager (in- structed by Mr. David Clarke) was for plaintiffs, but a letter had been received saying that defendant did not propose to be represented by counsel in this action. Mr. Meager said that on March 12, 1919, two of defendant's children were attended for influenza. About the middle of the month a third child also became ill. In this case there were complications, and on March 21st Dr. Lancaster was called to consult with Dr. Veall. 'I CHILD DIED. .Next day, it was deciaea also to call in Dr. Alban Evans for a further consulta- tion. A lumbar puncture, a simple Opera- tion, was decided upon. it was performed by Dr. Alban Evans. Later on a second operation was penormed by Dr. Begg. On the next Tuesday the child died. Mr. Meager pointed out that even after the death of this child Dr. Veall was called in to attend to Mra. Ansaldo. There fol- lowed a long correspondence between Mr. Hugh Woods, secretary of the Medical Association, and M. Ansaldo. These were read by Mr. Meager. In one of the last ones, M. Ansaldo remarked, I do not re- member ever refusing to pay Dr. Veall's charges. Enough if I say that had I employed no doctors my child would have been here to-day." A letter to Dr. Evans suggested that the operation was unnecessary and unskilled, and he refused to pay. JUDGE'S VIEW. I u It works down to this," said his Honour; the defeace is that having re- gard to the child's oondition from the 12th up to the 14th, they onght to have known there was something serious the matter with the child, but they went on giving the child tablets right up till the day Dr. Lancaster was called; that for a week the treatment" was wrong; and that had treatment been right, and it ought to have been right with reasonable care, the child would have recovered." Frederick John De Coverley Voall, M.D., said he had been practising at Mumbles for 20 years, and for several years had attended the family of M. Ansaldo. On March 10th he was ealled in to see M. Ansaldo's children, and on March 14th he was called in to see another child. Witness confirmed the statement of counsel as to consultation with other doctors, and the operations that were per- formed. The child died of meningitis, secondary to Influenza. It was brought about by influenza. COULD DO NOTHING FURTHER. I Mr. Meager: Is there anything further you could have done? Witness: No., air. The child died on March 25th, and on March 27th he saw M. Ansaldo and Mrs. Ansaldo, but heard no word of complaint. The next he heard of it was from a certain doctor, and as a result of what he told him he put the matter in the hands of the Medical Asso- ciation. Further cross-examined by defendant, Dr. Veall said the operation was for the purpose of relieving the child's pain. The object of sending for Dr. Begg was to ascertain the cause of the meningitis, and not to decide whether or not it was meningitis. I agreed to the operation and gave the doctors a free hand to try and save my child." This witness admitted. In further ques- tions, defendant saggegted that there had been an abscess, and in still further that chloroform had been given when it should have been a local anaesthetic. I JUDGE AND DEFENDANT. His Honour: The case now comes down to this—that the child was killed by chloroform. His Honour asked defendant to confine his cross-examination to points on which he was going to be backed up by a doctor. Defendant said the child died six or seven hours after the second operation, and in other questions suggested that the child might have revived after the opera- tion had etrychuine been administered. Dr. E. T. Morgan was called 1-0- defen- dant, who, howerer, said he had tried to get doctors ip Swansea, Cardiff, :d Lon- don as witnesses, but the answer had been, I dare not." Everybody knew, said defendant, it was impossible to get evidence against medical men. His Honour Judge Rowland Rowlands could not agree, and said doctors often showed their cleverness against each other in compensation cases. His Honour, in finding for the plain- tiffs, said defendant was a litigious man and was also feeling very acutely the loss of his daughter. The treatment had been a question* of medical judgment, and it did not follow that anyone was guilty of negligence in such a case. As far as he could see the doctors exercised every care in the treatment of the child.
I MR. ADAM MATTHEWS.
MR. ADAM MATTHEWS. To-day (Wednesday) the annual meet- ing of the National Chamber of Trade is being held in the Council Chamber of the Guildhall, London. Mr. Adam Mat- thews, of Aberdeen house. Swansea, has been seleeteo <♦» of five to represent the Credit Drapers' Federal Undou of Great Britain, which has a membership of 2,000. The meeting was to have been held on October 9th, but was postponed. owing to the railway tsrike. ,u ■■■■ ii Ha' 1 r i "i'
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MR. F. W. GILBERTSON. Re-Elected President by the Metal Exchange. Mr. F. W. Gilbertson's speech to, Swansea Metal Exchange annual meeting was heartily applauded, and the report was adopted. Mr. Daniells suggested that the speech was of such importance that it ehould be printed in pamphlet form and distribu- ted throughout the country. PRESIDENT RE-ELECTED. Mr. F. C. Strick moving the re-election of the President said Mr. Gilbertson had held the office to the aetiefaction of everybody. (Hear, hear). Among hi-s many activities he devoted time and labour and health to this work, and not posing in the limelight,—(hear, hear)-he was not givem to advertising the able work he did for the community. He asked the meeting to re-elect him, knowing that in better hands the Presidency could not be. (Applause). This was enthusiastically agreed to, and Mr. Gilbertson, replying, said he hoped next year there would be another nomi- nation. The intention always was that the Exchange should benefit by variety in views and outlook, and he thought the time had now come for somebody to take We place, and propound views from an- other angle. VICE-P RESIDENTS. The vice-presidents were re-elected on the motion of Mr. George Rowe. and Messrs. Neville and Holland added to the committee.,
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