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Viyella
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Comfort is essential in one's night attire, and nothing can give such all-round satisfaction as Viyella Flannel so light and soft next the most sensitive skin, ret protective and healthink.
Very durable, too, it will not shrink unless boiled, and looks well to the end. One must experience the delight of Viyella Slumber Wear to realise the reason for its popularity the world over.
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My managers have, with mature deliberation, resolved to cater only for those who are willing to pay the price for the very best article,
There is not enough of my quality to allow of my being popular except amongst the select circles of discriminating users of alcohol.
Do not be surprised because I am not found everywhere. If I were I would not be the supremely fine article that I am. As I am a supremely fine article, you must be willing to pay the highest price for me, or else be satisfied with something less fine."
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DYING WRITER'S REFLECTIONS
ON DEATH,
(BT TWELE BREI.}
(The following article was written by Mr. John Twells Brex, a talented member of the London Daily Mail staff, for days before his death when he was suffer- ing very great pain from cancer). Socrates among his beautiful serene philosophies that no man can study without girding his son with armour,
· remarked this of death:
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It is moon becoming for one who is. about to travel there to inquire and speen" lata about the journey thither, what kind. we think it is. What elas can one do in the interval before sunset 1"
The great war has done this much good to our generation: it has made us think more easily and more readily of death.
Life is a great possession. The more years we have on this earth, the more Fears we want. The most obvious confuta- tion of melancholy people who declare that life is not worth living"" who adicrously describe active, sanguine, varied multi-coloured human existence as "vale of teara," is the truth that man's greatest passion is the desire to live- to live anywhere, anyhow, at any price. if only to live; as a panper; to live blind, maimed, halt: to live braised in body and. soul-just to live What malady-stricken king would not forfeit his throne för exchange into the hale body of a roadside vagrant What sick millionaire would not pay his last shilling for the health and the rags of a goatherd Because în simple truth, it is kingly and rich to live.
That is why many people thrast aside any thought of death, and why-unlike Socrates they shun any discussion of death. Before the war it was "morbid "^ to talk of death Parsons were the only people we allowed to talk to us of mortal ity and then we went home to Sunday dinner and dismissed mortality as a re- mote contingency. We shunned death so much that we invested it with unreal. dread (preposterously calling it "The King of Terrors") and surrounded it with gloomy pomps. We brought up our children to think of death as some un- natural stroke of nature instead of teach. ing them that death ia as natural as birth
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The great war haa altered us. We who have seen a million of our strong men in the morning dew of their springtide pass gaily out of life cannot decently or with sty sense of perspective, beat our breasts on the comfortable, love-attended, gently. nursed deaths of our middle-aged friends or our middle-aged selves. We have seen, death overwhelm the young, joyous, and hale; we cannot grieve so much when death comes as a kitidly release of the pains and weakness of the middle-aged}⠀ and elderly..
I am happily learning that changed and rational attitude towards death. Sentenced by the doctors, *. in the intervál. before sunset" some fifty friends have come to visit me, many of them to say
Good-bye."
I know how they would have come before the great war had changed their attitude towards mortality. They would have composed their faces to melancholy as they acared my gate. They would have pinged" the bell gently, tip-toed up the stairs, entered my room silently, and pressed my hand. One thing they would not have done any more than they would have broken into song or stood on their heads. They would not have talked to mo about death.
How have my friends acted now that the great war has changed their attitude towards death? They come briskly to the house they give the bell a good "birr (so that the invalid upstairs can hear that more heartening company is arrived). They come smiling into my room. They tell me their news and their latest laughable stories. And about 30 of my 60 visitors have, like Socrates, talked about death.
All of us have known so many young travellers leave life, that we are consumed with speculations upon the Beyond. We are like booked emigrants to a colony whither so many pilgrims have departed that we wonder what homesteada they have furnished there against our coming and we pleasantly think of a crowd of loved faces that will await us at the wharf, shredding
Nor do my friends who are sceptical or open-minded concerning a future life, nor; those who are unsatisfied, with creeds and dogmas, nor those who rightly scoff at the materialistic farrago of "spiritualism, talk any the less readily, ensefully, and cheerfully of death. They are. I imagine, at one with Socrates when he said:-
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So myself to see not only Socrates but also Shakespeare, Montaigne and those dear old men, Izaak Walton and Gilbert WhitesTo ististy south of the curiosity of Samuel Pepys as regards London in 19191 To meet one's own departed,+ parenta,, kinsmen, friends,, so many-of whom were young sad gay when they died and surely will be young and guy in any other world
Death must be one of two things! either it to have no consciousness at all of anything whatever; or elec, as some say, it is a kind of change and migration of the soul from, this world to another. Now if there is no consciousness at all, and it is liko sleep when the sleeper toes not dream, I say there would be a wonder- ful gain in death. For I am sure if any man were to take that night in, which he steps so deeply that he saw no dreats and put it beside all the other nights and days of his whole life, and compare them and say how mane of them were better spent of happier than that one night Ifs human being could say that "to I am sure that not the ordinary man understand everything is to forgive every alone, bat, the King of Tersin himself, thing, we may be sure that our wenk would find them few to count. If d death nesses and offences will be forgiven is of this nature I would consider it a beyond gain for the whole of time would seem Then whatever happens to us, nothing- no longer than one single night. But if
And to Socrates philosophy of death maybe added the certainty that God Fig more magnanimous than man
it is a journey to another land, if what seas or another life what have we to lear some say is true and all the dend are in death1- Why should we not meet, it sa really there, if this be so, what greater mitts It is the sunset gate for esc
gaily and componexily se our pains good could there be To theet Orphens and Huaeus, Hesiod and from them. For my own part, 1 Homer, what would you give for that, any that I would feel that by work ha of you? I would give a hundred deaths journalist would be given the happiest if it is true
Lending if what has been written bere helps others, when their life is stricken, to look more easily upon death
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