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[DY A PARLIAMENTARIAN] The lot c
of the average Member of Parlia- ment, like that of the policeman, is not always a happy one.
Probably his greatest trial is his daily post-bag.
Every M.P., has sotha thousands of electors it is, of course, his job to represent thems in the House of Commons-and an uncom-
fortably large number of them think it is heir job to represent to him every sort of complaint and grievance, and occasionally to fecture him on
on his conduct.
Every correspondent expects an answer, whether it be free legal advice, if the member has the misfortune to be a lawyer.
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request for help to trace a runaway. husband, a
, a grievanco or a coUNUTE. The labour of answering a score or so of lettern day is considerable especially if the poor M.P., cannot afford a secretary-and most cannot.
Quite a lot of people thick a letter to their member need not be stamped which mulets him in three pence a letter.
Most members of Parliament ipend at least £. 1 a week, many very much more in replying to people they have never so or heard of.
An M.P's post-bag contain ny curiosities. A in wre e to his member the other day :-
'Sir,-You did not vote in auch and such a division. I pay you £400 a year to attend to your business.”
The
member replied:--
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Sir, consider your letter very rude and uncalled for.
I did not take part in the divison to which you refer because I was engaged upon a Committee to assist the Govern- ment in the "much more important task of reducing expenditure.
Let me say that you do not not pay me £400 a year, which I receive less income tax
Your share of it is about ad. I am close two ponny stamp herewith. You
to!
Probably bla correspondent was not one of the raember's supporters, but you can nover be quite sure,"
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A CHEMIST TESTIFIES To the Remarkable Efficacy of MOTHER SEIGEL'S SYRUP. '
A chemist in a small town, who serves the some customers year after year, has excep, tional opportunities of judging the value of the medicina he sells. Itu seen bis customers looking ill and depressed. Holle bem what they ask for. Later, he either sees them as ill as before, or rid of their troubles. In either case, h's trained mind will make a note of it, and it as is continually finding that one medicine is making numbers of his customers well and bappy, ne knows, without question, that such medicine must be of high curative value.
These obvious facts give great wight and interest to the kindly letter printed below.
A more plojant letter which another mem- | from a, chenist who frankly simits that be
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Dear Sir.-Last right, at Church,perties of Mother Scigel's byrup until he was the clergyman drew attention to the fact forced to recognise it from the evidence of that you supported increasel facilities for his own
own eyes, and the testimony his own divorce,
arged his congregation to customers. write top in protest,"
Stick your guns, sir. Yog on my sher anche
I I am married to a devil. You are lucky in not being a married man,
Remain an, unless you are certain of marrying a woman of sweet disposition. The honourable member replied:-
Sir. I am sorry you are married to devil, bet
but you must be patient.
You are quite wrong in asuming that have not a wife I enclose ber portrait Members with business and financial in- teresta occasionally get letters of which this is a sample→→→
Dear Sir-I shall be obliged to you if you can tell me a safe investment yielding 6 or 3 per cent, with capital ries in prospect
It is hardly necessary to say that any member who could broadcast information. like this would speedily make his own for tune.
Nobody," he writes, "Believes more firmly than I do in Mother Seigel's Syrup, although have never taken a dose of it in my life, because I am one of the few fortunato indi- viduals who have never had.
any digestive disorders.
the
daily experience of selling it over my counter, i have had many chats with my customers, and I have been amazed and deeply impressed by the tales related by enthusiastic naers of yo. medicine.
have known women in straightened circumstances who would cheerfully go with out anyt ing die in spare the money to bay Jour Syrup, and I have known men, who could easily have afforded the fees, of the most expensiv, doc.ars, who preferred
your medicine because of ita proved and unfailing efficacy.
with unbeauded enthusiast of what Mother "I have heard some of i ny customers speak Srigel's Syrop has dous for them, after they have tried ons remedy after another without say good effect. Mire than all, i have seen for myself the vast difference in some of my coaters. Some of them who looked pin- aby ill, have so changed that I felt bound to congratulate them, and I have been aston- Forlorn husbands and desolate wives applyishril at the number of times tray have mid to to the member," for help and counsel. ine feel spendid now, and I owe it all to
A lawer ruenbor the other day received a communication from
u a constituent asking him for free legal advice in an action with which the elector was threatened for alleged infringement of patent rights
A WOMAN'S, POSED One woman throw this poser, which might well have baffled Solomon, at her representative in Parliament:
My husband has left me and gone off with another woman. How can I get him back!
The most prolific correspondents are wo men. Almost any propaganda movement which seeks to board the harassed 3.P. with letters and post-ards seeins to appeal le women. They are the best friends of thentary propagandist.
They
movement
palitical judgment and learn tensit "stunt" from the genuine
Pensions and divorce are the topics with which probably the majority of letters deal. They are important questions and are treated with respect. But from most of the others the saints deliver us!
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Mra. Evelyn Field, wife of Mr. Marshall Field IL the nephew of Lady Beatty, has become the most heavily insured woman in the United States. Sho has taken out a policy for £400,000.
Mrs. Field is a daughter of the late Mr. Charles B. Marshall, from whom she inherited a large fortune. It is said that the insurance, which makes her, husbajd the beneficiary, is intended to cover the inheritance taxes, which will be heavy on such a large estate.
A few years ago. her husband took out an surative of £200,000 in her favor The largest insurance previously held by! a woman was one of £300,000 by Mrs. Mollie Newberry, the owner of a large Chicago, stor
A STORY OF JUTLAND, Opening the Britain Overseas Exhibi tion of the Colonial and Continental Church Society at the Royal Horticul tural Hall on June 8th, Admiral Sir Roger Keyes told a story of the Battle of Jutland He said that, when his Majesty's ship Lion was very badly, hit the lights went out and the ship heeled over. Then there was a silence, and in one of the control stations down below a young officer's voice was heard to my. "Well, I suppose this is Kingdom Come" And then as an afterthougat, or thres weeks leave." He thought possible the ahip would get into harbour and take some time to repair," explained Sir Roger. He said that in the Service they did not talk much about their religion, but it was always there, and he felt sure it was their early Church training which helped them to behave rightly in times of stress,
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Mother Segel's Syrup is, as this chemist because says" genainely valuable
medicine" contains medicinal extract of more than ten different roots, barks and leaves which, effect upon the stomach, liver and bowels. in combination, have a remarkably beneficial Asemedy for digestive disorders, it has no equal. Test it yourself. E. 315.
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