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TO HAVE ANY
VICTIMS OF AMATEURS AND
LION HUNTERS
(By Osbert Sitwell).
POET dead has always been as it were, directly across the
A worth a dozen living. The ether br hestas invisible
Many of the villages give the impression of having been named last to die was Sir William Wat- crooner. No hours of labout, by, comedian and a poet in al-son: and the facts of his career, therefore, are for composition.
It has, I apprehend, ever been temation: Helion Bumpster
as presented to the public in the Wingale Doe- Latchingdon and obituary colunasmust have thas since poetry, instead of being The great work done. by.
reham, Margaret Roding are caused a pleasant glow to warm sung, first began to be written A down. Doubtless-Chaucer: Shake- Dunstan's for soldiers Minded In eplex.
the heart of many a reader.
Ben Jonson although ous speare, the Great War is well known to Kore easily intelligible is they poet becomes a
Poet on the posters announcing manuscripts in those days were all that of the local Society for Gallic influence in the origin of the protection, of children less so, such names as Thorpe Tes ken his demise but here was one less easy to land on them by post though it is being done in our and Lay de la Haye near the who, to a name familiar envah found themselves similarly vic midst As with Barnardo's Homes ses coast, but who was respon- for easy lip-service, joined every timised. Fope, we know, felt ob- It is quite eighteen months gland, the basic principle on able for Mucking and Ugies?
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quality that such a being should liged to spend countless hours in since Japan completed a most which the Society works is that wo
possess; he had lived and written inventing excuses for not reading elaborate scheme of precautions child requiring help shall be re- SHADOW OFBOME IN CORNWALL
in the reign of good Queen Vic-the imitative echoes of his own against air-raid.darking fused. It does not have many one would not expect to find a
toris (a great aid to any poet), verse with which unknown per- out." stoppage of traffic at a
Feases of cruelty to deal with dire given sigzcal bomb-proof
Most poverty and disease are what it repercussion of the Abyssinian had remained uncomfortably poor sons perpetually bombarded him, shelters, all complete. likely there is no other country has to fight, and it assiste with crisis i Polperro, the Commishduring most of his life (as poets and in consequence incurred mach is not often, by some strange ing so to avoid hurting the feel- in the world where such food or medicine no less than 7,000 fishing village of winding streets should), was yet a knight (and it blame for his brutality, in seek-
To meet and artists, exsels
The Cornish fishermen here have coincidence, that the knight of to-ings of innumerable young people.
Of "Poels schemes would be so thoroughly children each month.”“”
day is a poor man), and, further,
And, unless the world has carried out as in Japan, for the these heavy expenses it is hoped simple reason that in Japan that those attending the recital wi bauled pilchards in their season had been “gifted
for many, many years. The huge obituarists united to declare changed, not young people only= Programmes can now be obtain-catches have been packed into with that elusive quality, the au- for we seem, really, to be a nation XMAS PRESENTS people do what they are told to give generomaly.
do by the Government, without
thentic note" (notwithstanding of would be poets rather than of any questions- At that time ed from members of the choir and brine barrels and sold to Italy. the expected enemy was Rus ia. of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Now, Italy cannot pay for the that he wrote verse which" "the shopkeepers. Old ladies
On and after Monday fish: Polperro is no larger pack man-in-the-street who, together young ladies,Cabinet Ministers Looking back on those negotis-Society". tions about the Chinese Bestern ned they will also be available at ing Pilchards, and there are many with Dr. Inge, is, in this country, and porters, housemaids and sole arbiter of art could easily aldermen and gamekeepers. hunt- Railway, with the stoppages of Messrs. Moutrie's, the Andersons idle men in the village.
understand, if only be would my-men, fishwives and interior- traffic. the frontier incidents. Masic Co. and the Tsang Fook
read).
cecorators; all of them appear, at the arrest of Soviet officials, it Piano Co.
one time or another, to have es- must be recognised that the
And many, no doubt, wondered, sayed the Easy Art and as they perused the columns be. The fruits of their efforts, too, fore them, what was really the have been singularly neglected life, the private life, of a.writer? and would undoubtedly provide None: he has none: sounds the a psychologist with an ample answer. For It is well known that field for curious research. It ap authors-and more especially pears, for example, as though the poets-are sent down from above flood Jevels of amateur poetry are seasons of as much for the counselling of all reached at different aspiring amateurs as for the en-the year, at each of which a dif- tertainment of the crowd. Their ferent sim, again, can be seen to sense of duty should oblige them inspire the mass.
Season's Influence- to read carefully, annotate and comment at length upon the Thus the flower tricked spring merits of every manuscript seat becomes the unfortunate foreing to thei
house of broken-backed lyrica.
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Soviet Government showed a EXPLANATION OF
most conciliatory spirit, with- out which a complete breach might easily have occurred. It looks as if the anticipation WES that the aggravations could hardly be taken lying down.” At any rate in the interests of peace, we can congratulate our- selves that for the present
YESTERDAYS CARTOON
44 Years With Pins In Mouth
Russo-Japanese relations are T
much better.
strange habits of Julius Piezzi, of Yolo County, Cali
Your Daily Smile!
THE GREAT LOVER Who loves not women, wine Will be a fool his whole bie lang.
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THOSE REIECTION SLIPS There's poetry in everything.
At least the poets tell it, But after you have dug it out,
It's tough to try and sell it..
*
*
ONE OR THE OTHER
And he said unto the light, "Either you or I, old fellow,
Will be towed down to-night
+ +
The Soviets are now within formis, started when he was a 10 Be was seated in the parlour the League, and that situation year-old boy in my home town, suggests the thought of what Santa Rosa. He suffered with a would happen if one of the other bad-tooth and found he was re- Eastern Powers were in the lieved only when it was pricked position of Italy? The Duce's with a pin. Then he started temper is not very agreeable carrying the pin in his mouth now, but it will be much more just to have it handy. He added bitter if and when, the sane more pins as the habit grew, and tions become effective. But for the last 44 years he has car
there is not the slightest rei ried from 5 to 125 pins in his
son to suppose that Japan would month, day and night. He also great pocketful of submit even as far as he has carries done. The controversy that karves never less than 10 has been in progress in England each of which he believes to be a on the subject of precautions good luck charm. against air raids is therefore of PARADOX OF THE BALLOONS
Take two toy balloons, inflate some interest to us, although nothing practical has yet been one to full size and the other to done or proposed. The two about quarter size. Connect main questions are, is it pos-them by a tube, and you will find sible to do anything effective? that the air from the smaller will and do precantions, by causing low into the larger balloon The a panic mentality, do more harm layer balloon has the thinnest rubber surface, consequently it is |than good?"
be weakest and the pressure within Incidentally it Karmayog noticed that some demonstra is less. Try it some time.
tions of power produce an effect it seems to be dangerous eveD exactly the opposite of what is to make a show of them. intended. In the Kaiser's
There has always been a
memoirs he traces his ambition cynical school of thinkers that to have a big Navy to the day bas maintained that the end of when he was taken to see a big war would come not through review off Portsmouth. He was very hospitably entertain mitigation of its horrors such as was attempted by the ed by various Admirals and was Red Cross Convention, nor greatly impressed by all he saw through any appeal to reason But in his own mind he was such as has been tried at the not awed, he was determining Disarmament Conference, but that he too would have a Navy simply through weapons being as big and as efficient. That devised of such ghastly ambition more than any other destructiveness that no sane single contributory cause was responsible for the destruction men would run the risk of ex- posure to them. That was the of the peace of Europe idea, years
ago, of Bulwer The second incident was Lytton in his novel The Com- much nearer to our presenting Race" He imagined a sort situation it was the recent of electric death Tay, wielded visit of a squadron of Italian by the possessor simply by the Army bombing planes under the waving of a stick and the result command of General Balbo to of course was a complete anto- the United States. As our cracy of the one man who had news reels showed us, the air-control of the fatal "Soy-stick" men had a magnificent welcome. Even now it is obvious from the But the sight of foreign planes discussions of the supply. capable of carrying bombs making, figure
and thei York gay
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No Private Life
GOT TO LEARN Percy-"If you knew me better, you would like me more.”
pure inspiration, being crooned, Mabel "And if I liked yon more, poetry in particular, consist of te tumly verse.
I would know you better.”
All without payment: though cripples from birth, while in high this in the public mind is only summer comes a sudden spate of « fair, since writing in general, and full-blooded te-tum-to-tum-te-tum-
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