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During the recent French elections Mr. John Bell wrote to the Daily News-
PATIENCE.
SATURDAY,
A PHILOSOPHY IN A GAME..
JANUARY 10. 1920.
a labyrinthine mystery, "glory shame and riddle of the universe.
Why, after all, we may as well play Patience as do any of the other deeds there are to do!
Miss Ethel Colburn Mayne has contributed the following to But if it is the game of fools and madmen such as that, it is Home journal - The French election campaign Patience not the virtue, but the game of sages too. How many is now in full swing. On Nov. the game.
brilliant folk have played it; from 16 Frenchmen will vote under an Some people seems to like it," how many of them one bas learnt entirely new system. To the said my maid, as she came in-or, fresh problems! So we will go on foreigner the machinery is so rather, sauntered casually through buying fairy packs in scarlet complicated that some explana- the "room where I was playing leather cases, or in pigekin ones tion is necessary to understand Patience.
that smell so nicely and nastily: it. It is no longer a question of She is from Jersey, and I never and, by the by, when Christmas. two or more candidates standing knew before how different a present agonies begin, there is Patience. point for for a constituency. It is a question Channel Islander can be from another of lists of candidates for each other maids. "What's this sup, "Does he want new cards or a department, the size of the list be-posed to be?" she asked. one day. new case?" For her," one ing determined by the population. encountering some cbject un-always has so many capital ideas Ordinarily there will be six Or familiar to her. I made answer that, if
notice. wamen eight candidates for a list, but by the book, and she said: "Ah! Patience players rarely have the there is no limit to the number
Undoubtedly scarlet or the pigskin cases. of lists. As near as possible the candidates comprising 2 list will be of the same shade of political thought. Thus in many depart- ments there will be at least three lists. The Socialists will have their list; the Radicals will have their list; another list is com- posed of representatives of groups forming the Right; a fourth is the Royalist list which Leon Daudet and the "Action Francaise" and Nationalist elements have for mulated.
new
There are over three, thousand candidates for six hundred odd seats. Generally. electors will rote for a list of candidates in toto. That is to say, if they con- sider that six Radicals should represent a department, they will vote for them. But there is nothing in the electoral reform to prevent a voter who is influenced by personality rather than by politics to choose from all the lists of candidates sub- mitted. voting for Socialists, Radicals, and even candidates of the Right. Considering the sharp political divisions in the country, however, that is a procedure which is not likely to be adopted to any great extent.
shows.
c'est ca.
you
it does upset one. Women like so many things that
But I am writing of far gone innse for cranded out a not of the virtue. Myself an should prefer another name ardent Patience player, I yet own for the dear pastime, but it is too that I am puzzled by our tribe.late for that. The game began The game is foolish. aimless, sel- when people were more docile to fish, teaching neither self-control the moralists, and liked to realise nor comradeship: How then may that they were patient. Wa we who play it be excused?
moderns get no pleasure out of Some frankly say: "I do it to that. We know that patience is till time." That seems to me aa virtue, but we know, too, how superficial view. My own is that delightful it would be to have no we "do" it to kill thought-that use for it. But there, again, we Patience is an anodyne, a way to know that "saying things" about
patience.
a virtue is more fun than-being Yet often, when I look across meek and sleek about it. the table as I play, I see my And so, scorning patience. nephew-fourteen, talented, un-play Patience-taking myself in, But scarred-absorbed in Patience, and knowing that I do. like myself. He plays the other never mind. Each age has its games--the cricket, football, own bravery.
That boy is tennis, which are by consent still absorbed and look! My evocative of civis Virtues; you be father has joined in. likes this one as much as I do. generations play. So it is not merely anodyne; he does not ceed such draughts.
Sometimes we do compete. in that we play, against each other, the same game--Blue Moon, so- called because you hardly ever bring it off. But it is one in which you can make points, though you be beaten by the cards.
Three
CHANCE FOR BRITISH
COMPOSERS..
LIGHT MUSIC TO BE GIVEN A HEARING:
Wan
By this means it will be poo. sible to give a hearing to at least But as a rule one plays alone twice as miny works as against the cards. Or does one possible under the old scheme. always, half-unconsciously, pre- Each work was rebearted and tend a bout with Desting? I used then played through.
Whichever of us makes most The new schemedor developing points will get our wish." he says, the activities of the Royal College It is in the counting of the inciting me to greater. heedful of Music Fund was inaugurated votes where the new election ress than, to his sense, I general-recently in the College Concert machinery is complicated. Wherely show. I leave his syntax Hall. It will be remembered a candidate obtains an absolute uncorrected. and we start. that the idea of Sir Ernest Palmer majority, he is proclaimed elected Whichever of us makes the and Dr. Allen is to rehearse forthwith. hut in the case of prints. he gets the wish for several new works publicly in- other seats for the same con- wish as I play-all heedless of stead of including them in con- stituency, a proportional cai- the long odds against us in this cert programmes. culation has to be resorted to. Blue Moon of 23 game called First of all, the electoral quotient Life. is determined. Afterwards the average of each list is calculated. Finally, the average is divided by the electoral quotient, and the list has the right to as to, consciously. If-I brought off There were fire works in the Conduit." or list, and the average of ecit many seats the division of Blue Moon," or
28 the average by the quotient! The Beetle." such and such awas pleasantly high. It was happiness would happen. It came worth noting, too, that only one Supposing after this arithmet- true. Sometimes: I reckoned but of the five names--that of Mr: ical exercise cne or two seats
the sunlit hours.". I do Frederick Laurence-was known. remain to be disposed of which it that no more now, yet still I play His Poem. A Miracle." is e is considered improbable, it is the at Patience. Anodyne or augury. good piece of orchestral mond list with the biggest average that you see.explain but partly. There painting. The other composers- will benefit. The candidate in is something more besides.
were Miss Jane M. Foseph, Mr.. this list who has secured the The aspect of the cards, of Albert Cazabon, Mr. R..T. Wood- largest number of votes will be course, is one thing Few are the man, and Mr. Eiric Cundell. proclaimed elected. If however, eyes for wirich those little oblongs, None of these composers, it there is a tie, the oldest candidate with their pictures and their should be added, have anything will be given the seat. Butaymbols, have no charm. In La to do with the Royal College. before 31 candidate can
Boutique Frantasque," was any Mr. Woodman is an old. Etonian public elected, he must have obtained moment more delightful than the-another proof that at least half plus one of the entry of the Kings and Queens schools do not stifle aliisympathy
Cards? A average figure of the votes of his
Patience, with modern musical leas. list.
you can savour these attractions Explaining the objects of the as you cannot at a real game, fund, Sir Ernest Palmer and Dr. with its hurrying, carking cares. Allen said they wieled to make But "each with the other all alone" it clear that their rehearsals were b at Patience, Kings and Queens meant to be public in every sense and Knaves are personalities; and of the word. Their aim was to Ace of Spades, the sinister, and arouse interest in assmapy quer King of Hearts the gracious, ters as possible. They were also. come upon you with the fateful anxious to have it known that air they have in fortune-telling. they wera not taking a superior That strange part of us which view of light music. Short works lives within so bosily a life all to scored for small orchestras would itself is taking notice of these stand as good a chance as long things, while the external valid ones demanding & hundred or part is, barikling in alternate more players. Our young masic colours, packing in ascending or ians were allowing the foreigner deacending sequence, making to gain - a "monopoly of light rubbish-heaps, avoiding Kings (as rausic, for which there was a in Blue Moon) and, somewhere great and growing demand, is no electoral quotient, the can. all the time, the you sits throned It was a curious coincidence, didates who have obtained the between them both, intent on be not without significance, that at moment Sir largest number of suffrages willing something which this nor almost the same be given the seats.
that knows the first word about; Oswald Stoll, was issuing an en-
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A candidate may go to the polls without belonging to any list. All that is necessary is that his candidature by backed by a hundred signatures duly legalis- d. In his case, if he has not an
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nouncement, of which no one in Oswald Stoll had been impressed the room knew anything, on al-1 by the growing discontent of the lamentable lowering of the stand- most identical lines,
He invites composers to sending of our lighter music, and the in works which are suitable to be fact that there was so little good played at the Coliseum and at light music being written here. other balls under his control dur-It had never been encouraged. ing the entr'acte. The works All help given was for music for should be written for an orchestra big orchestras only.
From the young composer's of 40 to 45. The selection will
be made by Mr. Alfred Dove, the point of view the scheme offers musical director of the Coliseum, verg great advantages. Each from whom or Mr. Croxton, at pieces selected would be in-the- the Coliseum, all further particul-programme for a week at a time, ars can be obtained.
which means that it would be Mr. Croxton töld & representa-beard by upwards of 50,000, tire of The Daily News that Sir people.
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