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with the cold, strong, silent Eng. the result that men are just able next financial year would be 241lishman of fiction, and we pride to get through their daily routine in the pound more than the pre- orselves on our lack of gestures of work. sent amount. The incienne le and our presence of calm in To overcome this lassitude and chiefly in the education rule, moments of emergency Com-restore the sensation of well- which will be 24. 1d, as against pared to cartain other natione we being which everyone desires, ls. Ild. at prosent; the rate for are undemonstrative, but I some- the nerve free mast be fully ather purposes, pow Is. 54., will times wonder if we really are restored, for the nervous he 18. 5. Should the Govern reticent. On some points we are, aratem rules the whole body. ment decide-to-make a larger horribly so. It is the worst of bad This demands sufficient supplies TO LET till 31st October. Apyll that finely situated 6 LET-From middle of grant towards-the-expenditure of
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of his income is regarde l as posi-hem the nervous system cannot and Telephone: Throat Cut in an Omnibus,
TOʻLET- No. 5 Mountain At Bow street Poio Courtively indecont. No one ever remain healthy.
+ heard a soldier allude to
Protein and phosphorus are View from 1st April 1914. My Thomas Wilson, 35, painter, of V.O." and the women who sura-combined in Sapatogen, the phos No. 12. Beaconfield Arcade, Barnsbury, was charged with at- tempting to murder a young woe our wounded through the phorus being in the exact form Shop. man named May Moore by cutting South African War never talk of in which it exists in the body and her throat with a razr in an that time at tea parties. We are nerves. This explains why Sana- omnil asit Euston-road on a Satur- really reticent about money and togon always restores the body's strength, revitalises the blood and day night. The prisoner was the bravery.
It is interesting to observe that reinvigorates the pervous system worss for drink when the assault was committed. A police officer there is not a quite good Englishhen they are depressed from any said the womna would not be able word for the antithesis of reticent, cause. to attend the Court for about ano for the time being we must. week. The prisoner was re- minded,
the Council, the rate may be form for a-woman- to say how of protein-and-phosphorus, the 1914, No. 64,The Peak roomed house known as 'No. 6
India's bot weather producos greater lassitude thao China'n. l'o the value of Sapatogen in such weather the Hon. Mr. Justice Kensington, Judge of the Chief Court, Lahore, attesta, Mrs, Ken- sington writes: "I have tried Sanatogen in the great heat of Labore and am absolutely satis Ged with it. Mr. Kensington bas lso taken it, and we have both found it a wonderful reviver and
e in one, and talk of "aureticent"; sometimes I think the lack of a word is hampering, for "indeed Dwelling Scheme for Finchley,
The application by the Finch-there are many anreticent people ley Urban Conncil for permission in these islanus of ours, and it to borrow 600,403 for the erection seems a pity to have to describe of workmen's dwellings was the them in a round about way subjtat of public inquiry conduct Our National Desire for Details I think that at least death beds ed by the Local Government Board. For the council it was should be sacred, that the last represente! that since 1901 the words of our dear ones should be
ours, our most precious possessonic." population of the district bad in-
Sanntogon can be obtained of oreased by 22,000, but the accuriou, to be told, later, in whispers,
to the others, who were not all Chemists, in bottles. of two modation had not inoreased ae. cordingly. Of the 300 houses it present, and for ever after to beizes. was proposed to build 240 were jealously guardod, as a lovely to be let at 83. Bd. per week and and toader family secret. 60 at 78. 6d.
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But wo are unretic,nt about other things. Take, for example, part of most biographies, while that part of us which we describe the things that some people vaguely as our "inside." Can or near the estuary. The first cheerfully divulge about them-anything be more appalling than service is to be between London selves in autobiographies must the way in which it is discussed, be an abiding joy to weary re-in season and out of season, by: and Maidstone, and recently a trial trip was made on the riven viewers in eerch of arresting some people? When anyone uttersO LET.-From April 1st. The with general office routine. Good
to me the word "inside" ('r any First Floor of No. 25; Des with one of the vessels. She is extracts
It seems to my such a pity that of its moro defioite equivalent), Voux Road, Central. Suitable 88ft. in legth, with a draught of 6It. Gin., and has deadweight we know that Charlotte Bronte, he conversation immediately for Offices. Rooms can be let Apply DRAGON capacity of 110 tons. The motor 48 she lay dying, whispered, "Oh bromes a monologue. I am no separately. gives a speed of seven knots in I am not going to die, am I? Hector, and have no advice worth CYCLE Co. still water.
will not separate us, we have been giving; literally, there seems so happy. Why should the nothing to say, except to offer Just before the funeral. in world have the chance of laugh- sympathy, and a long experience Carlisle of Mr. Crowder, an ex-ing over Mr. Labouchere aremark, of people who talk in this way Mayor of the city, wlio died at made the afternoon before he be taught me that it is silent the age of 93, hia son, aged 60, died? "Flamee? Not yet, I think," sympathy they want, coupled with who had been living in the same he murmured when a lighted the most unwavering attention.
TO LET for six months from house, died after a long and pain-spirit-lamp was overturned in his Then what about the wo
April 15th noxt, furnished ful illness. The son had twice bedroom. The newspapers of who discuss their husbands and been mayor of Carlisle
the world told us roantly that their failings in public with their four roomed house in Wanchai Lord Strathcona's last honra wee friends? That, to me, is one of Road. Electric light and fans
throughout. Nominal rental. A number of workmen are at soothed and sweetened by the the biggest sins. One hears it" e/o Hongk mg Telegraph." present employed in replacing words of the paraphrase, "Odone freely, in trams, in third- loose and weak rivels in the Forth God of Bethel, by Whose class carriagee; in the gallery of Bridge, and overhauling opera- Hand Thy people still are beatres, and in cheap tea-shope, tions on a more extensive scale fed," though there was consider-There may be a little excuse for are to be started at an early date, able differrence of opinion as to the frequenter of such places be New Submarine Base. whether he repeated the verses, ing fluent on such matters;. It is understood that Ardrosor had them repeated to him do think that for decent middle san, on the Ayrshire coast which Surely, surely, the undemonstra-class women to, chatter about is opposite Lamlash, the destroyer tive old Scot would have disliked their hasande' little ways as base, has been definitely chosen the publicity given to that item some of them andoubtedly do as the base for submarines on of news. If he whispered the ought to be punishable by law.ly became "the Grand Old Man' the west coast of Scotland. The words himself, there were long And for the girl who talks about or the "G.O.M." Afterwards come flotilla usually stationed at Lam- pauses, I think, and he did not do her love affira no punishment. Randy" and many of us still Nothing is there we thy of your con- lash will, it is believed, be trane-it very well; if others repented could be too severe..
speak of Me Chamberlain assideration than the welfare of your oyas I think reticenco. should be "Joe." But that was about the ly remedied, if neglected may get beyond The trouble that to-day is arall and sasi- *ferred to Ardrossan.
them into bis deafening ear, their Admiralty Oll Station. voices were at least husky. Why taught to children in the nursery. end of it, for Sir Henry Compbell single measures. Be on the safe alde and It is stated that the Admiralty should we know anything of the When my old nurse dressed me Bannerman was "C.B," largely if your eyes are giving trouble call on us and have them examined. No charge for have now definitely decided to intimate scene that took place in for a party (a rare enough event because bis full name was too sight testing. erect an oil station at the little that quiet bedroom? But as a in my youth) she used to say, cambrous. Nobody ever speak
N. LAZARUS, Firth of F rth port of Blackness, nation we love details, hence the "No, dinna tell them anything of Mr Asquith or Mr Balfour or OPTHALMIC OPTICIAN.
an' if they speer (ask) for the purpose of supplying oil supply.
Bay Sir Edward Carapin by a familiar
Tel. 1292 1A, D'Aguiler St dinna ken." Yon Dan name. And it cannot be because fuel for the Navy, and that they Lately, in America, a much yo
what
GUARD ADAINST PLAQUE pearls are negotiating with the proprie paragraphed and very wealthy imagine
of the personalities are sustere or tore of land between Blackness young married woman, lay sick conversation I produced and the Pumpheraton Oil Works of a fever. She asked for the my parties, Still, she was on the wise we should certainly have for way-leaves for a pipe track, tralb, and the specialists told her safe side, and I am grateful to some pet (or the reverse) name
A Short Way with Strikers.. there was no hole. The row of her to-day. Another thing she for Mr Lloyd George.
"Niver spik A Scottish sobool strike came reporters rushed from her door used to say was,
Gin to an end the other day. Forty-step, and the evening papers boreaboot yer own concaras
yo,
fow ke is five scholars at Backio Higher the head-lines, Mrs. Cyprian P things go wrang wi' Grade Sohool went on arike So-and-So told she must quit this nae jist tairriblesoarry--an it ye, because their demands for a world. Cyprian P. sobs like a are prosperin,' fowks ie nae sae shorter school day, a weekly half- two-year old." 'Later came a gled'a ye'd think," It was grim holiday, and no strapping change, and the turn. Next day enough paoyhology for my infant were refaced. The strikers they told her she would live, mind, and conveyed nothing to have returned to sobcol and and the newspapers gave me for many a day; but I have the head master gave each of them resume of the interview batween lived long enough to realise what four strokes with the strap the husband and wife, in a shrewd old woman looked after Two Ways of Love, By Iota, task which occupied him for which the girl was made to my matiners and morals. more than an hour,
You remember the Epilogue to Horace Blake, sobbingly," "Ha! Lyp,! any.
“Vïfine at the Tair.” Toore'is an Alleged Investment Frauds. I'll have to die all over again some Peter MoIntyre McLaren, a man other time." Could anything be excellent working motto for well known in Glasgow business more horrible thas giving publi- everybody in it. sircles, was charged in Glasgow city to that sentence? Eavesdrop" Nay, but there's a decency Pulios Court with fraud. indictment charged him with ping at the gate of death is not required!' quoth She" an elevating oʻcupation, having, since January 1, 1914 Other Topics We Might Avoid, received from different persona, Do you remember what John Various sumie, amounting to Davidson did, before he left his that £12,126 48, 8d., for the purpose home, never to return? He de- of investing in a copper mine in signed an ideal dinner; it con- mine.” Argyllshire, and in copper and sisted of potato soup, boiled beef zine shares, which he failed to do, and rice pudding. The poor star-F you have lost your appetite one of the big variety, of endi appropriated the money to ving post wanted this to be his own use, The accused was known; the lack of reticence in dainty dinhos at the ALEXAN- form lly remanded,
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