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SPIRIT OF THE AGE.
A BAD REACTION AFTER THE WAR.
Edgar Rowan writes in the Daily Chromele ----
Those of us who, when young, were too healthy and too inter- ested in life to be "model children." renlember that we always wound up a spell of: special goodness with a spell of:
Virtue may be special badness.
reward, but
is thoroughly bau pay, and a little feast of misdemeanours after" a bout of good living was a far more certain reward and a much bigger treat. If a really sang child has been good all day you may reasonably expect that he
its
will shortly pour ink into the tea-caddy, or drink his bath water. Orina moment of special inspiration he may
But I am getting autobiogrup hical, when my real purpose wus to suggest that a lot of us have
crown up since those days with- out losing the old habits.
THE TESTING DAYS AND AFTEN.
We have
passed
recently
through some very hard years.
and on the whole we stood the
WHAT
CONSTITUTES
VIRTUE
IN
A
MAN
?
test. There is no need to recall here, old man, that was a very
THE HONGKONG
SPICE PHILOSOPHY.
A CONFUSED MARKET.
Messrs. John Clarke and Co., spice brokers, of Nuw York, write, as follows in their weakly market, [report dated April 17 ——
The market is no easier to dopics than some of those war markets, which we still remember, |as one might remember the high lights in a bad dream. Our wak. ing moments are mostly filled with an all-embracing effort to fulfil the several separate tune- tions of buying, selling, shipping. arbitrating, investigating seitling, reassuring and comiserating, that make up the complex life of one whose wildest hope is that be Įmay some day be a real broker.
In war-time we could at least) get stuff, and most of the time we could ship it; now we can neithar get it, not ship it, except spor- radically. In those harsh days., people could get money. Now in the piping times of Peace. there is ΠΟ money. Then there were not enough ships; to bring stuff in; now, there are too many.
It is always
a case of feast or famine. It al ways will be. The lean unevent- ful days of 1900 to 1914-what did they do for the formation of char- acter? Nothing. It was the stress of war, the impact and menace of new and formidable and unprecedented - problema that: made many what they are to-day -sharpened their wits, gave them self-confidence, self-reliance, re- [source, widened vocabularies.
And now those hardy souls who weathered those wild years of turmoil, are taking this past-t graduate course in reconstruction, that is to fit them for greater service or for the Bone- Yard. The curriculum is hard, and not every candidate will go over the course. Very many fly-by-nights have Rown the coop already: many balf-wits and warbirds have found, their levels: there will be more.. The rough. the tough, and the] hard-fa-cured seem to hold oat best, somehow. Age and pul- chritudo have little to do with it. I think we started to say some thing about the market.
the htful intervals when
The market is a free-fight; in
the
the unsuspected stores of courage dirty engine that brought smoke lifts, there are heard the and self-sacrifice and cheerful-train up to town today," but ness under trial that The
overcome arrears.
!
are
low means of the belated sellers, emergenes revealed. Bat don't know whose fault it is.standers who got it with the rest: ball really have to do so soon. I the plaints of, the innocent by after a spell of good behaviour, Engines naturally did not have the creak of the screw as the there are disquieting signs of the regular painting and over bank cashier gives it another a throwback to the chil Ji-h habit of restoring the average | short-handed during the war, and him who seeks for the nutmegs hauling while the shops were
twist; the fevered breathing of with a spell of naughtiness.
even now it may be difficult to and red pepper and ginger that . Our naughtiness takes several forms. We are irritable or surly. We give grudging service. and are suspiciously watchin) lest we tender a action more of courtesy or work than we are pad for We withdraw into our classes and cliques from the war-time spirit of comradeship or fighting that made everyone who
But I remember days when a driver and freman would show The pride they took in their engine by polishing up little bits of brass and paint in spare moments,
no more; upthing can be shipped, to speak of: money is scarce and high: sites prevade all industries, and the end i not vet. Prediction is worse than mbecile. Perhaps this is low- that a railway water mark. We hope it is. locomotive was a thing of beauty cannot be much worse; it may in gold and enamel. WAS
I do not unravel itself when least ex
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working or fighting for the com- seem to see that now. Certainly pected. We presume Democracy mon victory our brother. We on the line I frequent it would be are lack and slovenly and difficult to
Pervisb.
see a bit of brass work that has. beea polished lately.
Again, it may be a very small at a country station which I use matter, but unless I am mistaken
We are all as bad as one an- other. I think the ticket-collector
in the quiet of the afternoon is--and it is a soothing thought that
will justify itself. Bat we wish it would get at it. For this pre- sent state of things is not business.. It is what war is, without its glamour and its pomp.
Not that it matters. but pet: sonally we look for some sunshine!
unarcessarily terse and officious if I am. I shall soon hear abou(after the middle of May: not in always demanding a peep at it shows that something of the much before then.
In peppers. my season ticket, when he must pride and interest in work has gingers. red know me by sight, and I. not to one-that unless a thing is de-notmegs, and some seeds and Peppers. -eloves. haquidone always utter the same finitels ordered and well paid for herts, there is a very inadequate peevish remark in return. So it is not done. I believe that a spot supply. And in other articles, gu up to town in an irritable mood, man has more self-respect and pimento, cassias mace, etc.. the and be is les: behind with new
more of real freedom if he takes a stocks are not so excessive. TE Fleas on how to be get more pride in his engine, or his horse consumption does
not shrink. irritating to the next passenger.or his rifle.
there will be higher prices in And so it goes on in a virions circle.
many grades. We do not think We are both openly and
the consumption will shrink. Far obelinately wrong If I coul1have purposely given trivial from it artz pull pizaalf together-and- lustrations from everyday have a cheery word for him, we soul! part the best of friends, and two lives would be brighter
IS THE TEA-SHOP.
THE TRIALS OF PEACE.
THURSDAY, MAY 17. 1820
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
Received new shipments
of
LAMB, MUTTON, BEEF,
RABBITS, HARES,
&c &c
From Australia.
KIPPERS, FINNAN HADDOCK, FILLET HADDOCKS,
direct from the Scottish Fisheries.
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less cases of the kind in England, What has been done in count-
Canada, Then things are reversed, as is South Africa and other countries America, Australia, apparent in almost any family.
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Take another instance. I have for Fome time been trying to find a clean table in a London tea-
And it is no excuse to say that} shop. I do not drop in during is merely the reaction after; t'ie **rusb hours"
the strain and the crisis. We of the day, but after the lancheon hours are men and women, and we and before tea-time. Yet gither must rise to the occasion of the little marble-topped table is war. Hesven knows, and sloppy with tea (which is Fardo do you and I, that there luck on the book I happen to be are enough things to try us rea ling), or I get a jammy-handled high prices, a gloomy outlook A young husband, who a few and sickly; always seem to be knife (bieb is creepily ancaony), nearly ali
the world, years ago was a student at Chelailing and likely to go into a do- or the plate is warm and wet from difficulties of trade on whichever tenham College, has been unable cline. the washing bowl, so that my ban side of the counter we stand to find employment.
A wise mother recognises these of bread and butter are unpalat-hearts and a comradely spirit in seeking positions in domestic ser blood," she says to herself," and But we managed to keep atout He and his wife are, therefore, signs of anemia. Too little much worse times, when we were vice, sad have inserted the fol- blood that is as thin and pale as being shelled in our Flanders ing advertisement in a Surrey the girl herself." There's the
reaches or borbed in our London newspaper-
cause of weakness and, arrested
able,
I know these are very trivial
matters, and that there were long periods on active service when
the dirtiest London tea-shop would have seemed sinfully loxorious, but such things to-day show slackness and discourtesy, and the prices we pay should command at least cleanliness and
good service,
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