The Cambria Daily Leader

The Day's Gossip. Leader" Ofjice, AlonddEy. Mr. J. L. Garvin yesterday, if you nod] the patience to stride through a four- column leading article, offered illumina- tion upon the American Senate's attitude towards the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations Covenant. He lays the blame at the door of Wilson. First he excluded from all share in the direction of the United States at war the Republican party, representing always about half the nation, sometimes a little more some- times a little less. Then just before the Peace Conference he committed the deadly and inexplicable error of challenging that party. It carried the country againei him, and since then his position has never been the same. It would have been a saving prudence if he could have brought himself to make the American delegation a national and not a party body by asso- ciating with it eminent Republicans like Mr. Taft, Mr. Elihu Root, or Mr. Charles Hug-hes. Instead of that the representa- tives of at least half America were ex- cluded from participation and influence. Yet they controlled the Senate, which pos- sesses concurrent powers in treaty-making, and might come to hold in the hollow of its hand the final fate of Mr. Wilson's policies. And for the moment—but only for the moment, for the Covenant will live through greater difficulties than this- America has rejected Treaty and League. I I Why Grocers Are Mild. I once heard a phrenologist explain why it is that grocers, as a body, are more sociable and better tempered than other tradesmen. That they are-more urbane and less easily upset or made angry is a fact which cannot be contro- verted, and there is at their Association gatherings, as there was at the Cameron Hotel last Thursday, when the President of the Grocers' Federation of Great Britain came down, always an excellent good feeling and magnificent reserve. The phrenologist explained this as a matter of habit. The draper meets his customers at their best, when they are easily pleased, but the grocer, on the other hand, has more to do with the ordinary rough and tumble of life. He caters for those who hurriedly rush in at early morning or late at night for a rasher of bacon or a quarter of tea, and those are often irritated, or at least irritable people, and the grocer has to suppress his own feelings to give them satisfaction. This habit of self-suppression grows on him, and de- velops into the normal character of the amiable average grocer whom we ftl] know, The Farmers of Wales. I Mr. Hugh H. Bus-her, a Port Talbot journalist who has been very successful in free-lance work, is now running in a weekly periodical a series on the ancient farmsteads of Wales. It promises to be very investing. Dealing with the era of persecution, he tells us that its natural outcome was many great scholars. Dewi Wynn, one of the sweetest bards of his day, was a farmer; Ceiriog and Islwyn, the former often described as the Shakes- poare of Wales [-No, no, Mr. Busher, the Burns of Wales surely], the sons of tenant farmers, while Christmas Evans. the great preacher, was formerly a farm labourer. fn Trevccca Fawr fa.rm-on the site of which Treveoea College now otan(i,war, born Howel Harris in the year 1714, the greatest revivalist in history—the man who set out from his farm on those stir- ring pre"hing pilgrimages that set the heather of his native land aflame. Books for Boys. I observe that a controversy in ore of the London papers on The best books for boys" has produced a letter from a secondary school teacher stating that for boys from nine to fourteen, such books as Ivanhoe,' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,' Jules Verne's books, and King Solomon's Mines are eminently suit- able." Whoever the teacher is ne must have had exceedingly clever boys under his care to instil into them a faculty for finding pleasure in such diverse litera- ture as he quotes. I know many, many boys whose ages range from nine to fourteen, but I cannot recollect a single one who could settle down oomfortably to even half a dozen pages of Scott. Kin .a Solomon's Mines" is a happy selection, and so is Jules Verne, but the advice as to Scott is like a doughey base to a light cake, if I may perpetrate such a metaphor. "Dr. JekyU and Mr. Hydo would inflame and excite a sen- sitive, childish mind, in my opinion, and a more unfortunate choice could not have been decided upon. A young friend of mine wrote keenly in this column a little while ago about people who would like the direction of reading for the young to be a kind of forcing process. Evidently he was not far wrong since we find a teacher reeling off a list that displays neither balance nor forethought. At any rate, if he has little boys of nine who thrive on the reading lie r ^ects for them, they must be knobbly-tempered little persons peering ,through huge spectacles and Pett Ridge would break his heart over them as be- ing rather inhuman human boys! About And." ?- i In a time of unrest comes Mr. J. v. Squires' London Mercury to remind us that there is a world that knows not the wor-d-economies, and where literature is the greatest thing. In an article on The Teaching of English," Mr. J. C. Stobart says of the primary teacher, She might not interpose though twenty successive clauses were joined together with and," because she knew that it is b e knew that it is natural for language to begin with co- ordinates, and that mere mental growth combined with. practice in reading and writing will cure that fault." Then turning to Robert Lynd's essay on Horace Walpole I came across this, the earlisst known letter of the greatest of our Eng- lish letter-writers, whose correspondence occupied 18 vols. of the Oxford Univer- sity Press: Bear mama, I hop you are wall, and I am very wall, and I hop papa- is wall, and I begin to slaap, and 1 hop a.1 wall and my cosens like there pla things vary wall and I hop Doly phillips ie wall and pray grive my Duty to papa. Horace Welpole. and I am very glad to hear by m t11 at all my cruatuara are all wall. nd Mrs. Selwen has sprand her Fot and gvis her Sarves to you and I dird ther yester Day. So perhaps a predilection for ands on the part of an eight-year-old may be an earnest of great things. Wild Fowl. I A great silence enveloped the country- side around the Loug-hor estuary, only broken by the intermittent shrill barking of a terrier puppy in the small farm- house, which during leafy months was not discernable but is now plainly visible through the high leaflets trees; and then even that ceased. It was that quietness which grips, which is almost overpower- ing, too stern and dead for eensative nerves, and so to break the rpell I swished the reed tops as I walked the pillth which skirted the green 6e3 of grasses. Suddenly without warning, from almost under my feet a flock of birds rose with much whirling of wings into the air, beating asid e in their frantic haste the sharp stinging rushes. The seen. changed! In the fight of that flock of wild foul there was life, strange echoing noises, the whirr of strong wings, the glory of motion as they hurried through the air, the glint; of the shining blue of their pulsating bodies, their frightened dies, whilst the rushes were guiveriwf.

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Children's Corner. -0 BY UNCLE JOHN The assays on the It Two Minutes Silence" still continue to come in, al- though the competition was closed on Monday last, so of course, you will un- derstand that, while I am glad to see so much interest taken in the offer of r- iz-es we cannot possibly re-open the contest We will try and get one of the essays in now and again, and that is all we can do. Aunt Mary was at Work yesterday send- ing out the prizes to those who had won them. and very likely they have by now reached you. Here is one of the essays:— THE TWO MINUTES' SILENCE. I The silent tribute to the glorious mem- J ory of those who -died that we might live," on Tuesday, was wonderfully im- pressive. For two minutes, the whole country side stood still and-paid reverence to that noble army who went forth to battle for the great cause, and never re- turned. In its simplicity, the means chosen to perpetuate the memory of the great deliv- erance from the hand of tyranny, were made all the more impressive and no cele- bration oould have been more universal. A feature of the day, was the holding of many meetings, in support of the League of Nations, the great hope of future peace. The silence was heralded by the firing of maroons, the blowing of hooters, and in several other ways. The chief centre perhaps, was the Cenotaph at Vv-hitxli-all, the wonderful memorial to the glorious dead." Nothing better could have been suggested than this tribute of silence. It appealed to all. Everywhere, in country mansion and town house, there was a great silent reverence to the dear de- parted. There was an instantaneous re:) sponse to the King's calk It was good I for us all; it Wtr.6 striking in its sim- plicity. Britain remembered her glorious dead, and she will never forget.—From Lottie Reed, 2, Llwynon-terrace, Peny- bank, Ammanford. A FUNNY LITTLE NOTE. I 3, Lliw-terrace, Pontlliw, near Pontar- dulnis. Dear Uncle John,—I am having i another try this week again. This is the second time for me to try, and I hope it will suit you. Well, I am sending you this storie:— Bobbie (dictating letter to his sister whom he has squared" into writing for him): Dear Miss Brown—Please xcuse Bobbie for not bean at school sinse Teim- day, has he as add twothake on Teusday, and on Wednesday he broke is harm, and he had to go to a party yesterday after- noon. If he does not come to-morrow it will be because a boy thrue a stoan at is i.-Your truly, Bobbie's Mother. —I am your niece, Diana Wright A MIXED PARCEL. From Griffith Ernest Walters (agap 13} yeare), 38, Pentre Estyll, Swansea. Dear Uncle John,—This is my first attempt, and I hope you will accept me as one of your many nephews. Here are a few riddles:— Why is it dangerous to go into the woods in spring ?—Because then the trees are shooting. When ie a sailor not a eailor?- When he is aboard. I What is that which a man don't want to haye and yet don't want to Joee?—A bald head. I What is that whicii never asks ques- tions, hut wants uaanv ans'wvjs?—A door- bell, Why is a crow the bravest bird in the world ?—Because he never showe the white feather. What do liars do after death?—Lie still. When are eyes not eyesr-When the winds make them water. What key is best for unlocking the • tongue ?—Whisky. A Joke.—Only Playing.—Tramp: Yes, mum, I was an actor once. Lady: And what was your favourite role? Tramp: The one with the sausage in the middle, lady. Illfinted and pubLishcd by the swa.nsea] I Prwk LW. at Leader Buildup. Sw&jiae?

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