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POISONOUS NOVELS.
The Wickedness of Women Writers.
H. Russell Stannard writes as follows in a Home paper
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1921.
MEDALS MELTED DOWN.
55,000 Scrapped to Change Design.
Questioned by Major Prescott,
WHAT IS WRONG?
Where the Nation's Shoe Pinches.
Sir James Gorman writes a, Mr. Churchill states in Parlin- follows in a Home paper ---- mentary papers that the number
I start this articla with a ques-
The great majority of British No "estimate of the number of people continue to enjoy. the battle clasps required can be given civilised life-food.
many advantages of our bighly, clothings until the question of such award transit, and pleasures of varyin has received further considera- Įkinds, moat of them regardless of tion.
the fact that, without our gras
of the 1914-15 Star, the Brj ish war medal, and the Victory medal will have been completed within four ye319.
Major Prescott asked for the
We
industry is under a cloud. so bofore the coal strike, and that disastrous event has, of course, made things a good deal worse. For the problem of coal was really at the bottom of the problem of shipping.
I have just been reading a new novel by a woman writer in which of silver British war medals antion of the gravest importance t the principal character, a worse bronze Victory medals required is every member of the community" who tells her own story, has been approximately 9,000,000 and funfaithful to her husband. She 5,500.00 respectively.
goes to her aunt for advice and asks how she can repair the wrong she has done to her un suspecting husband, who is away in a distant country. This is the advice the aunt gives
The number of silver British mercantila marina, which carries "You have done quite the war medals struck 18. 2,994,500 | our coal to the ends of the earth usual thing, my dear. This is no and the number ofbronze Victory and brings back raw materials world for Puritans. Gota Mexico | medals struck is 11,257; the and manufactured goods. to sea bim. Let the baby be his į number engraved is approximate should have to forego most al -he's always wanted one, and ly 1,000,000.
these things we have come to men are such simple darlings"
It is impassitile to estimate the regard as life's necessaries, This is a fair sample of the rumber of soldiers awaiting the Therefore if something wrang? willy, vulgan prurient staff ai | 1914-25 Star until the final meda¦| with our shipping industry, which this novel is made I do not fulls have been submitted by it is the concern of everyone to propose to give ́il free advertise fofficers in charge of records. know what. And there can be ment by mentioning either the It is hoped that the distribution doubt that at present the title of the book or the name of
It was its author, nor to lay stress upon the barra that the circulation of such literature can do. What would like to point out is that an ucly accompaniment to all the talk by advanced women, about "sex equality and "the
- WHY THERE IS DISCONTENT. right to motherhood," is the through bad workmanship; what growing tendency
It is because our output of coal was the number of bronze Victors of, women authors, especially new authorsmedals which were struck and is nearly 50,000,000 tons below to write novels containing re engraved and subsequently the pre-war figure that, whereas called in owing to bad manufac- in 1913 we exported practically ture and melted up.
100,000,000 tons of coal, to-day He also asked whether there we send abroad hardly 30,000,07 There have been about half-a-had been serious trouble exper- tons. And that means less work dosen novels of an undesirable tenced at Woolwich owing to bad for our merchant service.
twelve bronzing which turned black when means that hundreds of Loats and
exposed to the air, and that the thousands of seamen are idle, temporary preventative to lacquer When you get,'added to this, the surface now in use will wear the fact that wagons are'con- in time and turn the bronze stantly being delayed for days at Finish black.
a time on the railways, and dockers are doing less work per Of the cam- I have mentioned but all badly pleted silver war medals, practi-hour than they have done for needed cementing.
sears, it is not very difficult to Only a prude cally cone have been scrapped. would object to-day to the in-
see why both the shipping in- Approximately 650 bronze |▬▬▬▬▬▬÷÷÷÷÷troduction of any sex incidents Victory medala
dustry and through it every were engraved member of the community is in a novel In a book of great and subsequently called and suffering. artistic merit, such situations are approximately 550,000 have been done in a way that can cause no melted down owing to a chance class of worker who is contribut
The ironical thing is that every | offence to the healthy mind. The of design which it was found novels I have in tuind bad little necessary to carry out.
ing to this state of affairs is in or no artistic value, so that the
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pulsive sex incidents.
"BEASTLY" CHARACTERS.
character during the
months which have come into my Eands as a reviewer, and every Gae of them was written by a
WOMAN.
number of silver war medals which have had to be scrapped
I admit that none of them was so crude and revolting as the one Mr. Churchill:
effect on the reader was a feeling I cannot accept the hon. andthat it causes.
that these incidents were merely the lacquering will wear off in gallant member's statement that drepced in because the author
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of lacquering now in use has many ships go out without it, or In one recently publi-bed parel been subjected to severe tests that not only do we get less there was att a decent male and is confidantly expected food and raw materials for our character in the book. All the that it will prove satisfactory. men were besate, ont to mid every woman they met. Evident ly the author was convinced that all men are vile, and that never. by ang chances a man corrupti jel by z woman.
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Yet another novel depicted the Man of Mystery from Russia. tragedy of a woman separated
manufacturers in this country, but it also means that the sup- plies which do come are a great¦ deal dearer, because they bave to bear the cost of both journey, there and back.
Just in the same way, long) delay of waggons means that the
from her erring bu-band but An extraordinary story was extra cost goes on to the things unable to obtain a divorte Here.nfolded in the Rotherhithe they hold, and the hold-up of food again, alt de men this woman Coroner's Court, when
the and other goods at the docks met behoved like thum ich Mack-topoest was held on a many means storage charges added to guarde.
believed to be J. L. Prince, whose those goods which the railway- One can only stume that -medecomposed body was taken out man and the docker must pay of these writers are disillusioned the Thames as mouth. The when he and his wife do their women who bear they have medical evidence went to show shopping. been unfortunate in their love that the body bad been in the affairs, are ready to write down water about a fortnight.
all marriage we failures.
suppose. these
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a hrata, symptom of the unrest among H educated women, many of whom
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That is the position as it affects
us to-day. Bot it has a wider Inspector Lansdowne, of the aspect also. Let us return to the Thames Police Force, stated that coal industry. Many of our over- the body was that of a
mn seas pre-war markets have noti of aze, been recovered since the war, khakilebias because of its high price Those of us find themselves debarred from jacket and snow boots. In his and its scarcity. matrimony and motherhood bại
possession were found an alien's who are engaged in the com Cause there
Permit issued by the office a mercial side of the industry are *7+ not enough hu-bands to go rou
Chatham, notes to the value of beginning to feel that without Some of! the more daring of these women 2,000 rubles, and a number of some improvement in the situa-! are preparest to suggest a remedy letters.
tion, mažy more of aur coul
for this unhappy condition of Das of the letters was addressed markets will be lost beyond hope affairs which will certainly not to Mr. Robert Sievier, in which of recovery. commend itself to the community the writer said: "I don't know if WHEN WE SHALL HAVE CONTENT (as it adheres to the present moral you with remember me. I am J. Without that thr British
code.
E. Prince, of Pretoria I have merchant service would suffer Theen trading in Russin and was permanent and staggering blow,{ doing big husiness when the and it would be felt by the whole that why writ poisonous Russian trouble came. I had to country. Leas work for British novels? Why deride the mar-clear out, and I was captured side would mean less money in riage stem? Why
openly and escaped 47 times from the national revenue, and we advocate looser morals amount the Bolsheviks оп my should have permanently what
WHY DO IT
ing to free lore, in which women way to Vladivostock. My fortune to-day we have, let us hope will suffer a deal inore than they of 900,000 roubles was confiscated temporarily, viz. fewer imports, do to-day and which will inevit by the Bolsheviks and declared and a decline both in population abig undermine the reverence for of no value. I am destitute. and the standard of living. Thei womanhood which, dospite that having money which is of no son of British prosperity would unsettled state of civilisation, value."
have definitely set.
despite greater freedom between The coroner, in his summing The great point is that more of all kinds; especially for ship-|
the sexes, was never so deep-up, said he remembered some-coal will clear away both difficul- building and engineering worksteabam that her husband bad among the younger men?
A woman complained at To t-rooted as it is to-day, especially thing about a man named Prince ties.. It will give full work to who helped Kroger to escape out, shipping now, and cheapen Completa stock, Best
terms.boon persistently cruel to her. What sort of impression do with millions of money after the the cost of living, and it will, in Immediate delivery.
The Magistrate-In what way-these women novelists expect to South African war. Deceased addition, help us to win back our| The wife He follows me about.
make upon the minds of the might be that man. young teen among their readers? verdict was returned. A man who appeared at the Dother suppose that this on- Tower Bridge Court on a charge hasbing frankness will heighten of receiving stolen champagne their respect for the other sex stated that another man gave it and imbue them with a desire to to him because he had a bad make the world sweeter
easier for women? cough.
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An open pre-war markets and keep active oor boats in competition with thess of other countries.
That is the miners responsibil- ity. The railwaymen, in their clever, but it is not womanly and eight-hour day, and the dockers. and it is not calculated to make, men with their new guarantee of -a anxious to take up the responsibil-daily minimum azs, must also HERAPION NË I
These women writer may notities of married life.
Igive as quick service and If women writers feel bound to prompt discharges. Then, with THERAPION NO.2 when the last trampes sounds, do well to remember that there is express their opinions boldly and is fair distribution of the profits
Mr. Symmons at Clerkenwell-have realised it, but they would THERAPION N03 quite a sumber of Metropolitan, growing disgust among educate frankly on these matters, let them of industry, British shipping, beta med car Carraca Police constables will be founded men of all ages at the biase keep the discussion on a high those engaged in it, and the TAKERZENNLAND Making note of the time. Mr.manner in which women are in plane so that nobody can possibly entire country, will again enjoy the habit of talking and writing accuse them of pandering to the prosperity and, let us hope,
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