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SHREDS AND PATCHES.
MINNESOTA.
Current C AMERICANA. Item under a Min- neapolis datelino: Minnie Paterson had obtained a divorce, the case going by default.
Mrs.
"Do you want your maiden name back?" asked Judge Gullford."
Mrs.
Reterson hesitated 1 moment, and replied:
"rd like it, but I don't think I bad better do it. The gas meter is in the name of Peterson and I had better keep it that way;"
ILLINOIS.
that the only trouble of any magnitude has been at the chief Government School where there is no hostel, and where the applica tion of the authorities for the provision of boarding accommoda- tion.has been persistently refused.
King Feisal of Irak It is no reflection on a staff which MODERNISM. Mesopotamia) ro- is well known to be as fine a
calved a surprise mentally equipped body of educa- lately, when his wife returned to tional enthusiasts as one could Bagdad.from a visit, thoroughly hope to mest in a college of its inculcated with European habits kind to state that it is not sur- and fashions. prising that the seeds of disaffec- Instead of travelling homeward tion should have found richer soll by the ancient caravan route from
the court of her in the minds of youths who are
father-in-law, free (so far as college supervision is concerned) to roam the street where she had KlögTM" Hussein, at any hour of the day or night been staying, she when they are not actually took passage on a engaged in their studies. No liner to Basta. great harm has been done up to Then, disdaining the present, however, and as they offers of palan- have not received the suppet quins and other from other schools they are ancient vehicles, believed to have been led to expect she sped to it is probable that a few days will Bagdad in a fast see the main body of students automobilt, arriy- back at their studies; if not there ing at the court in would be little difficulty in making European dress, up the nera of even as large to the unbounded a body of the students as are astonishment of affected judging from the waiting her husband and
From a public bull by the Rev. lista The trouble should not
his retainers,
J. B. Culpepper, an eminent have been without its leason, how- Faisal after recovering from his Methodist divine of Haynesville:
Every man ought to marry at the ever, and for the reasons stated surprise gave his approval, and the above the Government might well queen now is importing the latest age of 21. I would pat 22 as the reconsider their decision regard-creations from French and English limit of singleness for a man. At ing the provision of a hostel for costumiers and milliners. The "Ex-33 he ought to be fined $100 for Queen's College.
press" attributes the Queen's meta- being a bachelor. The fine should morphosis to a Miss Bell, secretary he remains single. At the age of be raised accordingly every year to the British High Commissioner In Mesopotamia
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Mr. Chamberlain was explícit | far
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China who
THEY SAY THAT
From a prayer by the Rev. Frederick Arthur Ewert, State chaplain of the American Legion in Illinois:
And, O Lord, If there be any la this country of ours who do not like it, then, O Lord, we do not want them here, and we pray Thes that Thou In Thy divine way will provide them with the meine of getting but of it!
30 he ought to be sent to the penitentiary for life for the crime of remaining unmarried.
THE
The egg is INEFFICACIOUS smooth and EGG. very pale;
It has no tail';
It has no nose,
One would Insure its belle tournure. Eggs are most futile, vapid things; They have no soul, they have no
wings; They did not eat, they do not
drink;
They do not even try to think.
TO GOLF OR NOT TO GOLF.
For some time past serious
denounce
it,
ía
of reform-will undoubtedly be the provision of public baths ini the city as well as wash-houses.
There is more electricity pro- Room will have to be found. for duced in New York City alone them and the razing of slums to than in the whole of Great Britain. It has no ears that one can see; that end will be a step in the right In Norway, farmers use electrici- It has no wit, po reparies. direction. This measure ofty to milk their cows, chop the If it were round or even square, necessity will result in a saving. hay, and grind the corn, while their or squat in contour like a pear; It will save water at any rate so wives use it to warm the house. If it were green, or blue, or black; 89 the ""washing of cook the dinner, and heat their Or had a shell that did not crack:
is concerned. Study curling irons. Unfortunately, there at a street fountain and for ail purposes, at a given time, tion, no doubt." The protecting agree. There will be a saving in and the Sunday roast is sometimes of British lives and property was the matter of discomfort. The spoiled because the farmer starts the fundamental duty, of every ordinary Chinese has no facilities milking or hay chopping, There for the daily scrub which is the are flies apparently in the most up British Government and the pre-order of most healthy-minded, to-date ointments.. sent British Government would and bodied people here. Glance digcharge that duty. In taking at a row of houses or flats, try this stand, Mr. Chamberlain soon and imagine the cubicles into found that he had the support of ber of people occupying them and which they are divided, the num- the entire House of Commons, the the lack of decent facilities, and
But there is; after all, some- Labour leaders losing no time in agreement will be reached. The
Maxse's announcing their approval of this Government, it is alleged, is get-persons have objected to the thing serious in Mr.
ting out of its educational work game of golf, notes the Daily charges. Golf, he contends; is a part of his speech, After this
very cheaply. We have yet to Telegraph" (London)
good game for the elderly and the stern warning, delivered with a hear the Government's point of
Mr. Leo sedentary, but it is not good Boys united voice, it is to be hoped that view and the amount it has given Masse, who has just matched enough for anyone else. the irresponsible elements in sites practically free of charge Balfour to
in building grants and valuable himself against the Earl of and young men have taken it up. and thus surrendered our old are allowing them- and at nominal erown rents.. But not original or lonely in that this Lord Balfour replies that golf English supremacy in sport. To selves to be used as the tools of no one questions that on certain occupation. Men may be heard at is not largely played by our public outside mischief-makers will matters of ordinary municipal
routine it gets out of doing what it any day and upon any links, schools, and that so far as we pause to ponder the possible con- it should do at no cost at all. and they are far more fervent and have ceased to be supreme in sequences of their reckless folly. Think of public baths and wash-free than Mr. Maxse's courtesy games it is because the other Britain is the staunch friend of houses, at Home, or to come a permitted to him. But he argued nations have now at length learnt China would she, for instance,
little nearer, those of Japan-and his case, which they do not. to play. The answer is not wholly again reach agreement.
Britons, he urged, should never be adequate. Though golf is not forego the Boxer Indemnity were
slaves to golf, first, because it was played by a large number of boys it otherwise?and every effort
made in Germany; secondly, and young men who are perfectly "because it has a debilitating t-fit-to-play-something faster and that she can make to put the
fluence upon the younger genera-more strenuous. Most people who country on its feet will be made.
tion. The evidence which Mr. know anything of the training of Therefore it is for the real China, Convicts are almost invariably Marse has been so fortunate as to physique and character would. the practical, hard-working, sentimentalists, Mr.
Stanley discover that the Teutonic allow that young fellows ought to Beolt. labourious and industrious China
Knights played golf in the inter- have a course of some hard team No other sport, however of Mr. Chamberlain's speech, to I think that boxing is the best Prussians we shall be glad to see, good for muscular development,
vals of breaking the heathen game. see that a handful of malicious sport to develop a young man.
Pope Pine XI.
Meantime, we propose to continue for adroitness of body, and quick agitators furthering the ends of
to blame Scotland. The secondness of eye, will supply the place Because the British Govern- outside mischief-makers are not spend half an hour in leisure-element of surprise.
Many people do not know how to part of the indictment lacks the of vigorous team work. We have, Five hun- of course, many current. examples ment has said little about the permitted to estrange and embit-Den Inge.
dred years ago it was discovered that golf and other games are not, growing chaos in China during ter two nations who have so much If the appetite of a boy fails, let that golf was doing Scotsines a lot mutually exclusive. A man may, the past few years, most people in common for the good of the him wait till it comes back. Dr. of harm.. The state of that un- and, in fact does, get his blue for have assumed that the Home world.
Harry Campbell.
fortunate nation must by this "Rugger" or "Soccer," and play time be deplorable. In 1457 the golf for his University. But prob authorities had lost touch with
Civilisations ure built not on Scottish Parliament "decreted and ably there is some truth in the events in this part of the world.
phrases but on ideas and ideals. ordained that the fute-bal suggestion that golf tempts a good The great speech which Mr.
Bishop of Birmingham
ande the golfe be vtterly cryit many boya to desert "the flannel- Austen Chamberlain, Secretary
The time is not far distant downe ande noet veyt." It was led fools at the wicket and the of State for Foreign Affairs, de greater benefit to be derived from tramways in the main streets of country should give their time to should a lad not play the game. The general recognition of the when there will be no room for desired that the youth of the muddied oafs at the goals." Why livered in the House of Commons, close personal contact between our large cities. Captain G. E military training and particularly which he likes beat, which, in as cabled in full yesterday, must pupils and those who have devoted Gower.
shooting. For Scotsmen have general, will be that most suited finally dispel any such feeling. their lives to the training of the
Golf takes your mind off work held
always, with strange modesty, to him? We fear that it is vain youth and adolescent is shown by Mr. Chamberlain showed not only the increasing growth of publie until it becomes so absorbing that superior to them in the use of the young golfers back to cricket, in the English were to call, as Mr. Maxse would, all the that the British Government has boarding schools throughout the you have to get more work to take long bow. But the ancient Parlia-order that we may recover the been following happenings in world and the, even greater
your mind off golf.Mr. Alfred ment was no more convincing than ashes. It is confusion of thought Salmon. China, but has been following demand for the ardenities they
Mr. Maxse, Nobdoy seems to to assume that we play games in them very closely. There is no his own way in life looks back on' provide. The parent who made
have taken any notice of its order to beat other nations. The decree. need, with his speech still fresh a youth devoid of friendship with
It tried again, and object of playing a game is not “ordvinit that in no place of the "international aupremacy," but in the public mind, to recapitulate others older and more experienced
realme there be usit fute-ball; amusement, exercise, health of the main headings. Suffice it to the resolve that his children shall than himself and is actuated by
golfe, or uther sik unprofitabill body and mind. We send our best say Mr. Chamberlain established have the opportunity of availing
sportis." Thus early was the men to make a match with the beyond doubt that the present themselves of what he missed;
horrible seductive power of the best of other nations in order to game made manifest. Mr. Maxse keep the game strenuous and troubles are due to the internal [while the parent who experienced
thinks that its essential vice is skilful. It is surely plain that à dissensions of the country as care-it himself realises its value too
proced by the kind of men who are nation which gets about the win- fully exploited by outside mis children a privilege to which he well to think of denying to his
attracted to it, "politicians, journing of international games as if chief-makers, who have turned owes the formation of habits of
nalists, "international financiers, that were a chief object of sport mugwumps, mandarins, bureau may easily achieve supremacy the discontent of the populace into mental exercise which are an ever
crats, and highbrows." We could without a high general standard” anti-foreign feeling in order to increasing source of enjoyment to
goon in this strain for years of skill or physique or sportsman- further their own evil enda schools in Hongkong modelled on himself. There are boarding
together, dinners and suppers Ahip. A concentration of Interest That much, of course, has been English public school lines and
and sleeping times excepted" on a few matches and a few play- What game was it that Mary of exs is not necessarily good for a obvious all along to impartial there are in these and other
Scots was found playing after her game or a nation, Lobservers in the Far East Nowchools hare sahne puitplataf
husband had been in suspicious |- should rather sim xt is that Mr. Chamberlain has driven public schools in England are master as the staffs of the best
circumstances, blown up? © Golf, body should-) it into the public mind at Home, made up of. It is more than likely we. may, expect to see the nation that it is the feeling for loyalty to stand behind the Government in these masaters which is Its determination to protect Briin so much c
Comparative tish lives and property in China having bean axers cod.
Mouse students of Hər armup pre Lanfuj moques mois present crisis
A Strike Moral.
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of course: Who brought golf to | And England? Not Lord Balfour, but that wisest fool in Christendom, James L. They were great golfers in that unhappy House of Stuart. Obviously, that scoounts for their misfortunes, and perhaps also for thelt fatal charm.
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