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POPULARITY OF LAWN TENNIS.
AN END TO DOGGEREL
MIDDLE AGE AND. YOUTH.
In the House of Commons on
The Town Clark of Leighton In the packed, almost suffocat- the Committed stage of the Bumard having been dopated to ing All England ground at Finance Bill, Capt. "Wedgwoodļact as official consor of epitaphs Wimbledon I stumbled across a Benn mored a now clause as has bean advised to get a naw disconsolate figurema sporting |follows=* Section 3 of, the Fin-office Bible and to polish up his journalist whose specialities were ance Act, 1919, and the second knowledge of Scriptural quota- | Bugger, cricket, and real tennis, |scheduls of that Act are beroby{tions suitable for tombstanas. writes a „Morning Pust corre- repealed." This raised the ques- Leighton Buzzard is a delightful spondant. He drew me into a tion of the desirability of repeal-join place, famous for its hunts backwater away from the stream ing Imperial Preference. If there and its beating the bounds on of enthusiasts, and, wiping his was to be Imperial Preference, he|Rogation Day, when a boy has to solamn perspiring face, he groan- said, the machinery which existed stand on his head while an anciented, "This is getting worse and under the clause was unsuitable will is read aloud in public. His worse." A thunderous cheer from and even absurd, from the way intoric records show that the in-the centre court interrupted him which duties having a preferential habitants have been guilty of fora moment. Than be resumed : effect were mixed up with duties spelling the same of Leighton "Of course, I saw it coming long which were intended for purely Buzzard in nearly 10 different |ago-about the time that Wilding: ravenue purposes, as was the case) ways. It seems that there has came on. In the old Doherty with the sugar duties. Another been too much larity and igvor-{days there was nothing like this. fobjection was that in dealing with ance in the past in the matter of Mr. Balfour, of course, is a lot to the duties in the present way we epitaphs and in spelling. It is a blame. And then the Press!" tended ment which were made with a Ruzzard. Some of these epitaphs, | manner against the Press. definite assurance that they werefit is said. hare been unft to A scurrying band of elderly. intended for war purposes only. ¡send to the stonemason. Thay ladies winged their way past us, There was the still further have run the gamut of the human | making for the centre jobjection that the duties as now [omotions, from the solemnly where tense bush alternated with | adjusted involved a sacrifice of sanctimonious to the barlesque, reverberating cheer. "What do ravenue. This was especially the It is felt that the tirea has come yon make of the crowds?" be case as regarded tea, the pre-when epitaphs like the following, fasked. “It's not Ascot, it's not |ferential treatment of which had which is zo be traced on a tomb Eton and Harrow- inseverybody.” Įled to less money being collected stone in the liuta churchyard at Full of foreboding, he burried on [with no advantage to the con-Burlington, near this town, should “It's our cricket I'm afraid sumer. but apparently with great be submitted to the censor for of England without cricket! advantage to Mineing Lane. The approval→→ tendency of these preferential įduties was not to lower prices to the consumers of colonial produce, but to make them pay the same [price for such produce and in
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Here lies the body of Mary
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That's the danger. The lessons (of the war, you know? Mind you. I say nothing against lawn tennis. The Dobertys were great players, but"--Commander Billyard pass Called from this world to hered, looking like a Roman General
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She burst while drinking
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THEN AND NOW.
Most of all did he object zal These duties because they were The official censor is to have an part of a larger and definite assistant, Mr. H. W. Claugh, cheme of Imperial policy to chairman of the Burial Board. which those on the Opposition | who is just the man for the job. There can be no doub; of the side utterly objected in principle. He say that he used to go extraordinary and growing popul-! It was evident that many deparound the churchyards in his arity of lawn tennis. The Wim- ments of the State, including the youth and learn epitaphs bybledon ground in the pre-Wilding Colonial and India Offices, were heart. He recalled one in old days was a coes. comfortable framing their administration as Linslade Churchyard:
place, where you dropped in of an far as possible with a view to full- Our life is but a winter's day.afternoon sure of a place from ---| blooded protection. The offer: Some only breakfast and away, which you could watch the game must be to set up economic Others to dinner stay and are in comfort, and in that close friction, to bring about conditions inll fed.
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essential to real appreciation of of world peace that we wished to
the play. But all is changed. In jestablish į fear, bear.)
Large is his debt who lingers January the scramble for tickets Commander Kenworthy, spes out the day.
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FATHER TIME AND TENNIS. forination. which was derived
The lamentations of the sport. from experis and was the best)
ing Jeremiah set one thinking. obtainable, was the benebt of thelence meant taxation upon corn Why is lawn tennis so popular? preference on lựa of which 90 and other commodities which Why is Wimbledon so crowded per cent. of our consumption the Dominions seat us. The that another ground has bad to came from India had undoubted-Tariff Reformers had won for the ❘ be chosen? A lawn tennis single |ly cone to the consumer. Prices time being, and every Liberal in or double does not provide the varied for many reason*, Do the Coalition he hoped would deep professional interest of a merely because of a rise or fall take note of what that meant. cricket match: from an aesthetic in Custore, and therefore these it was the logical sequence of the point of view it does not offer the things were no capable of association they has formed. As mathematical demonstration, but ong as bis party were in the he had no doubt the his General House they would fight this statement was accurate. What issue. was true of tea was true of the The amendment was rejected preference on Colonial wines, ni by 130 votes to 49 majority 81. which only a small portion was
Only now and then does play crown within the Empire. hel
even at Wimbledon become realis thought that the benefit might|
Captain W. Bann mared an dramatic. If a champion is bav- have gone to the producers, o amendment excluding from the ling it too much his own way. to the consumers in bis country. ambit of the preferential system then the attention at once re-l But he was content whether territories mandated wader the lapses, and a bom, of conver- went to the one or the other. Peace Treaty. To do otherwise, Įsation fills the stands. It is. of After all the object of preference he contended, was a breach of course, a cheap game: it is was in the first place, to give the spirit which informed the played equally well by both wrong side of 35. A mat. # practical exemplar in this sphere Peace Treaty.
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of Imperial unity, and in the Major Ormsby-Gore," white arrange a match, it is said to tennis almost to the end of the second place to promote Imperial expressing certain sympatby suit the individualism, of this chapter. A stripling of 70 dous development.
An Army Council instruction with the amendment, said that generation, though that latter his flannels and dances about the Our manufacturers knew bow some territories such as German point can be exaggerated. But cport like his grandson; a lady of states that no soldier will be mach they owed to the preference South-West Africa were mandated are these advantages sufficient unmentionable years takes up her provided with spectacles unless we got in our Dominions. The as territories which could be best to account for the deep popular racket and snaps her fingers at his night is so defective as mat erially to interfere with hi Dominions had never sought to administered as an integral part | approval of lawn latina given by dull time and its menace. interfere in our domestic affairs. of the Empire and be did not see all classes and all ages?
What other game is so consider efficiency and his vision can be Every leader of every party in how the amendment could be Surely there must be some-rate of our failing boties, so sooth-so improved by spectacles as ta every Dominion expressed his pressed as regards them.
thing else. And io looking ating to our fears, so tender to our render bim efficient. Daly one approval and his desire for this Sir D. Maclean said he would the crowded stands at Wimbledon sensitive vanity? Croquet and pair of spectacles will be issued It was plainly put be willing to fall in with any an explanation glided into one's golf are merciful to our limbs, but at the public expense to each they aro before the country at the general amendment which Major Ormsby-mind-an explanation which was careless in hiding the accumula Poldier for whom election Hon. members appeared Gore suggested to cover the point at once.conveyed to Jeremiah, tion of our years. Lawn tennis. authorised. to think that there was a danger raised by him.
and found approval. Of what is on the other hand, saya politely: VAIN QUEST FOR STARS.**
system.
we
tour
to the future peace of the world Mr. Baldwin (Financial Secre-our generation afraid? Getting "1 sban't tell." In a word, if No ready-made "stars" have in any such friendly arrangement tary to the Treasury) pointed out old. If Mr. Shaw were to portray gives us in a world of inexorable been found by the Mess Empire amongst different portions of the that the section only became us another hell, it would be com-realities & cheerful and steadying agents in their mouth's Empire. If the whole of the applicable when the terms of Dosed of people afraid of old age. illusion, and in humble devotion through the provinces of England
for undiscovered, Empire were contiguous on such the mandates had been received. Now lawn tennis throws a sop to to the kindly goddess the world on a quest question would arise. Because and the wording was that we that hungry fear. A day-an is on pilgrimage to the Wimble, talent. Out of over 1,000, pro-
communicated across the may" by Order in Council give early day-comes in Rogger and don shrine.
fessional artists, a certain nun- ber have been selected for book- ocean, what
possible to that preference. That ensured Soccer when Anno Domini gives WAK other Empires was to be impos-that the matter could be debated its inexorable warning-a later
ings, and 14 of them appeared sible to us. The was nonsense. in the House, and therefore any day comes in hockey and cricket | FUTURE OF PORTBURS SHIPYARD. at a special matinée at the Free Trade had not save us discussion now was premature, when you are inevitably classed t'olonel" Wedgwood asked Mr. Finsbury Park Empire, the pro from war. What had magni- Major Barnes said that the among to old stagere.
Charchill recently whether the needs of which will go to the ficiently helped us was the loyal Premier had told them that the
War Office are buying land | Variety Artists Benevolent Fund. and voluntary assistance of the mandate would come under the The summons comes to most between Bristol and Portished. in Not a single one Had ever before Dominions, he slightat com-cognicance of the League of Namen it comes to all women and connection with the abandoned - appeared on ine bounds of a Fou mervial conces#joga to wham tions. Would this goestian of mostly at a time when they are dockyard there; and, if so, why don thestra.: Mc' R, ĦL. CHE were obnoxious to the Opposition extending preferential treatment exceedingly unwilling to obey. Colonel Wilson, in a - written the zaaunging directo party.
to mandatory territaries be Bot lawn tenais soagh its Engers, reply, says "The Lands Empires, LIBERALS TO FIGHT THE ISSUE.amongst the terms to be thus sobat Anno Domini gives the Directorate of the War Office are success
Sir D. MacLean said the policy |mitted ?
illusion of perpetual youth, if acting for the Government in the which Mr. Chamberlain contend- Mr. Chamberlain No.
putr no undue strain on those matter. The whole question of hipyard ad had been settled was the policy The proposed clause was re-respiratory organs and other the disposal of Porth
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