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'Hawking" (Chalen er) 1-15]ROUND CONTEST FOR THE MIDDLE-
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'FLU MASKS. THE HEBREW PROPHETS
- AND ROADMAKING.
The nosebag habit (says the "Japan Chronicle ")-has taken strong root during the present epidemic of The subject of good roads, though influenza, though it was unknown in not as old as the hills, at least date a that of the autumn of 1918. This is back to the earliest civilisations. a reversal of the experience of other Even the old Hebrew seers realised It will be a hard rask to find a countries, where they have used the their advantages. Isaiah, a man of Speaker of the House of Commons muzzles in the first epidemic and to fill the place of James William discarded them as a superstition in learning and position at court, must, Lawther, writes Charles T. King in the second. The Japar chemists one would think, have sometime The Express. Many were afraid last are doing an excellent usiness in been a road: engineer, perhaps on winter that he would resign, but he the new respirators, which might the then, Road Board, or in the comforted the Government and the possibly have the effect of limit. Ministry of Transport; for his utter- House by announcing that he would, ing the infectious sputtering of ances on like to remain in the chair until the en influenza patient, but would
the subject are fre fulfilment of peace.
hardly afford a serious obstacle to
quent. In his visions of a fature I am sure that since Sir Thomas the breathing in of free floating good roads were an essential feature. time of happiness and prosperity Hungerford became the first Speaker germs if indeed, that is the method How he would have rejoiced to see in 1377 no occupant of the chair has by which infection is achieved. It a realised in the desert a highway" been more fully master and servant a delightful sight to see Japanese as built by our Palestine Force, or of the Commons than Mr. Lowther. gentlemen walking over the bills on Right through his Deputy Speakership a Sunday taking the fresh air through he longed for when he foretold the, consummation of free intercourse 1895 to 1905 and his Speakership a respirator! They may be observed from 1905 to this moment, he has at a height of a couple of thousand adorned the chair, dominated the feet and far from any human habit House, and held the reverence alon, wearing the mask with all the most the fear-of most members. solemnity of a religious emblem. Ia He was made for the great post- the trams, on the other hand, vitiated tion. He is "a fine figure of a man air plus a mask is more than flesh whether rising in full-bottomed wig and blood can bear, and off comes and silken gown and silver-buckled the mask! shoes to announce some message from far shores to the Mother of
Parliaments, or riding his big horse trois the seething cauldron in an or fencing on the terrace o mornings excited scene with a firm hand.
to secure air and exercise in order to Members respect or fear his eye, and counteract the long sitings beneath everybody admires his glacial im bis canopy in the Commons.
With such a figure, tall, dignified, His shrewd common sense helped to partiality whether to rank or party. that of a finely developed English frame and to place on the Statute man, there was one voice that the book the greatest extension of the Speaker of the Coramons needed. Mr. franchise seen in Britain, and his Iowther has it. It is a voice full of humour and understanding of men deep, resorant tones, and capable of are such that often when I have seen great meaning in its inflections. It as it were, great quivering Boulders la a daily joy at the close of questions of trouble on the equipoise, he has to hear his voice intoningwith brought them down on the sides of natural power the conventional laughter and good will order."The Clerk will now proceed
When after an hour or two of
to read the orders of the day." It is high tension and hectic excitement, rhythm and music..
READY WIL
way out of Egypt to Assyria," Did he in that day there shall be a high- forsee our Class I and II roads when. he prophesied "A highway shail be there and a way or was this an anticipation of separate roads for economies were sound. His ideal fast and alow traffic? His
highway was straight, in which every valley shall be exalted and the crooked shall be made straight, every mountain shall be made low:
he been addressing a modern meeting and the rough places plain." Had he could scarcely have chosen better in the bottoms, easy grades to the when promising well-drained roads lorry user, or arterial roads and smooth surfaces to the motorist: His: call to work is as keen as that of any enthusiast of to-day: "Cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones!"
Isaiah's mind seeras to have focussed rather on the roads that on the speed of future traffic, but: who ever has watched modern military transport will realise how aptly, had the House needs rest for its nerves, they referred to delivering forces, he will call on a bore, and the House the words of Jeremiah might have. Mr. Lowther has averted many a will melt away for coffee or Scotch. been applied to the movements of black storm with his ready, wit. His When a particularly fuble debate is our Palestine and Mesopotamian swift answers, straight to the point, on he will mercifully call on some expeditions. He shall come up as are never strained, and his superb body who will be funny. When this clouds, and his chariots, shall be voice is never hurried or fluttered, man of superb presence and mighty as the whirlwind." Nahum, too, I remember one day questioners tact leaves the chair, who will suc has a vivid picture: Chariots. were after Mr. Churchill like a packed him? Many names are mention thali rage in the streets; Lot wolves Again and again the ed in gossip. Sir Ernest Pollock bas they shall jostle one
against Minister evaded or said nothing. indescribable solemnity of face and another in the broadways, they shall "Mr. Speaker," cried one."are we real humour: Mr. Asquith would seem like torches, they shall run like not entitled to a reply from the right make a fine Speaker but perhaps the lightnings. Could there be, a hon, gentleman ?
the man best equipped by experience better description of the noises of and knowlege is the Deputy Speaker, mechanical, traffic, of the glaring "You can't get blood out of a whose name will go down to history head lamps, and of the high speeds store," came the soft-cooing voice of with the Whitley Councils. No mad and congestion which have resulted the Speaker and it ended in laughter. I could, point to would quite all M. in the demand for speed-ways and. Years ago there was some dissen Lowther's place. Such men are street widenings. Would-these old sion in the House, and Mr. Hilaire
seldom born or made. ¡Belloc, broad chested and a little.
timeworthies after all have been corpulent, was in the midst of it.”
much out of place at the recent Road Some one roared that Mr. Beline
and Transport. Congress?-Enginar should settle it outside the House
ires: The hon member," said the Speaker, soothing the din, is excellently qualified. He Alls a large space in the literary world." The Hous Jaughed and all was well, con
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