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BETWEEN OURSELVES. sitting in and finishing my home-the liks. I just happened to baked scanss when they get the remark that very same thing to abance."
MacPherson the other night. *Yon place was given for the facPherson, he-but what's the girls and no' to make profit out of use of troubling you about what theirchow. You men have all got he said! Hew all right in his the mistaken idea that our young way, of course, but a man that Now, eating wit me is very ladies pick, pick at their meat knows what be's talking about largely a matter of babit. Janet like a wheen hens bus many as vary liable no" to abe says that that might apply gnawing stomach lies under interesting as ons that doesna even wi graster, force to my georgette blouse. It may be that bother about the facts so long as drinking but in the case of my they bavena' the right kind of girl he keeps you entertained. As I chow, she says, it's more á mattar at you place; it may be that it told him once, that's metaphysics o capacity and concentration would cost these girls more to ongwAY.
"How," says he, thinking 1 There's some truth in that, micd live anywhere else; it may even ye, though I fair hate the idea of ba that the majority of them pre-as miscalling him in a genteel every bite being tallied as it'sfer feeling in yon thin kind o kind o' way. Then I explained. Mac," says I. "it's like this. being stowed. That sort o' thing way, but it's no right for all that. must be vary bad for other folk's Once having accepted the girls asben the party who listens doesna' know what the party who indigestion. I was just reading boarders, an lostitution like yOD the other day that ye mas as shouldna' set like a genteel kind speaks, means, and when the well eat grass like a cop for all a Workhouse. Either they get party who' speaks doesna' kuow! the good your chow does, if the right kind of girls and feed what be means himself-that's you're in onyway upse: athen properly or do away wi' this metaphysics" the table. But that's neither end o the business altogether and here nor there. What I was make it purely a Peak ladies going to tell ye was that las: club without cbaritable trim Sunday night I happened to saymings of ong kiad." something to our chow destructor,
when Janet, she got on to me like A Labour Government. fury for opening my mouth at the
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You'd think from the way you're recommending they sticky dishes that I'd a couple broken ribs and you wanted to bold them to gether from the insize."
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It sounds to me more like damned nonsense than ourthing else," said he.
And ever since then I've been very careful in the use o' big words.
Charity.
MacPherson now, he thinks table. I was kind o' taken aback that we're very likely to bave a
Seriously, though, there's lots at the time. It's so very seldom I've Labour Governmeat next. Mac's sot time to talk when I'm eating.a great lad. I think his brain folk have an idea that the a kind o' But really, when I get yon sort of
must have stopped growing just M. C. L. Bazaar is stuff wit which they stick bills up about the time he finished his ap glorified Jumble Sale and, if they on the walls, served up disguised prenticeship. That's the way his thought they werena getting value as pudding. I naturally stank 10 politics, even to this day, have for their money, would be the very know what I'm paying $20 a *021 a strong LP. flavour.first to say the thing was a fraud. meath, for, no to speak o' the He still retains the impressions Their idea of charity is confined costs and light. Di course, the he got on Glasgow Green listen to the belief that it's an act of boy, be looked kind of burt but line to some ron Socialists. Stace to save the staff for auction didna' care a curse for his feel But man, even wi Labour, there at the binderead. To give a ings. It wasns his stomach that has been grea: changes within collar or two more for a thing is was being dedied anyway. And I te last thirty years or so. Labour unthinkable. Sucb folk mistake a said so.
tales wi' many voices now, and charitable effort" for the spirit of charity. They apparently do 61 her But Janet, she was
you believe high horse. You, ye great, considerable range of opinion be not realise that charity exists as gluttonous gumph! You woull tween the crude and irresponsible much in the relationships between sure up your nose at your mea! utterances of the street corner ourselves as it does in our acts like that I like to ken whatrator and the cautions. Wullie on behalf of the less fortunate.
During the War. Hongkong next? Maybe re'd be wanting statements of the man that's some calf's foot jelly to keep up been through the mill. Between was very charitable-very gen- ourselves, Labour is in itself erous. Now it is a most difficult a dollar for the kind o Coalition embracing job to raise excited. views as varied as ons that children of those who fought and characterised the recent Coalition many of whom have suffered for which Labour so heartily despised. 100g. Come to think of it, despite Another thing, if by any chance all the mones made in this the party were returned to power, Colony only a tithe of it goes to charity. I hope then that the the country would be committec "Oh, ay." says she "sou've to experiments which couldna M. C. L. will have good support turned awfu' particular all of a fail to react disastrously on its nez: Saturday. sudden. I'd like to know what commerce and industry. We Etcetera. ever's the matter wi' & nice dish, have only to take a peek at These Budget Days. no-one o carbour once in a while Australia to savvy what would be should be tard up for a subject. But I'll tell ye what's the matter likely to happen. A new beaven but unfortunately my screed for wi ye."
she hersely, and
canna be this week was nearly all written earth "you're
off. weel
If fashioned out of frothy phrases before I got waded through you Linkeumdoddie and wild assumptions and if our columns o' criticism and helpful 30 were and getting ai. three time complex system of industry and suggestion. I also wanted to say a day ye wouldna be so nice commerce were deranged by word about how the tailor gabbit.
I had a lassie here to tea defiance of economic laws we bearly cut my kilt ower short, this afternoon and I tell ye if Should Fall like Lucifer, never but I'm thinking I'll have to let you were staying at the Helena to hope again.” (That's more it go for another we:E. Then May you'd be very glad to come poetry but never mind.)
there WAS the question home once in a while for a decent
What's more forbye. apart from automatic telephones and the
which the loopy views of its visionaries, shameful way ia meal."
Our there is another considerationsmah put a darn on the Beat which weakens the appeal of my second best tweed-ay Labour. It is, after all, founded I was saying, subjects for on a class basis—a malign and the picking but I'll ask you to disintegrating thing. Labour excuse me now for I've had a placeites consider class solidarity a sair loss: a week and Janet] yon," says f. hoping to draw her the supreme virtue and are really says if I dinna come to bed out. "Look at the new wing Tories in their zeal for privilege.quick and get it lifted, there they've just bad built and the new the privilege of their own class. be no bowls match for books that's been added to the They have age been very touchy Saturday. library."
on the question of their fitness to "Let that be as it may." says govern, but, by the Hokey Fly, its"; she, but in the case
a mighty hard thing to get en- boarders, it would fit them better thusiastic About the recent if they added another wing of Labourites at Westminster. Be- chicken now and then or made a tween ourselves, I think. Mac's
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Genteel Cuisine.
Wi that I pricked up my ears for then I kind of jaloused what bad started all the durry.
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WARDER'S DEATH,
few more daily entries in the havering, but then again, as I've Funeral at Happy Valley. Compradore's book. The way said before, What's the use of they feed yan boarders is terrible. being ignorant if we don't show Just you listen: What d'elit".
think of this Sunday tifin fari
wheen growing lassies? Soup The M. C. L.
The funeral of the late Warder' Hoare a Happy Valley yester- day afternoon was well attended, representative detachments from
All available members were present,
(and no warn at that). Ubicken Janer, she's fair on the tiptoe all departments following the Liver on Toast, snipe wi two of excitement about the M.C.L. coffin. bio vegetables. Fruit Jelly. Bazar that come+ of next of the staff Chaese and Fruit. Mam there's Saturday. I'm sure she'll be including parties of European and no' enough there to feed a jaund.e-thankful when it's all over, what Indian warders and Police Ser- ed canary-
between weans' clothes, whist geants. Mr. J. W. Franks, Super- "Hold on." says I. "I think drives and toffee pulling. She fendent of Prisons, was amongst that's just fine for a nice, wee and I have had many a sex-to those in the procession. recherche tiffia. If the soap of over the head it. but ia A large number of beautiful wasna warm they could eat it the end I've been driven to wreaths were seat, including those all the quicker and I like soipe hold my toogue. Here in from Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Franke, fine myself."
Hoazkong, where women work Chicl Warder and Mr. J. C. West, "Ay" paya she, "so you do bus for weeks making things for the Dr. A. H. Esler. Eurupean Officera you, generally have about three like of the M.C.L., we shouldaalat Laichikok Prison. European G them 29 8 hors Fourre. be ower critical. No one reatises Officers at Victoria Gaol, the ex- Hall 8 snipe! Think
more than I do that the worth Active Servicemen's Association.
it and no second helpings, raind of the labour and material is the Clerical Staff of the Prisons ye. And
in what's
fruit seldom realised in full. If the Department. the Sikh and Moham. Į jelly? Just frozen water. I'm ladies gave in cold cash what medan stals of Victoria Gaol, the Sura they've no rent to
cost, pay their contributions
the Sergeants and Lance-Sergeants" up there and I think it's as little M.C.L. would probably benefit to messes of the Central Station, as they could do to give the greater extent than after the
lassies hearty meals for the Bazaar. But, (and there's most- money spent." I'm Leave It To Them.
u
a 5 aye ladies there
"bot" where the
concerned) are
but,
BIG WATERSPOUT.
would certainly never Visitors to Porthcawl (Glam- "Hold on." says I, that's all be such giving without the pres-organ) report seeing from the very well. Your idea of a bearty ent inducement of mild excite esplanade a huge water-spout. meal though, is a bit too wholement, and maybe it's more Itrose from the sea some distance sale for some of our lassies nowacbaritable to keep the end in view out, and extended into the low- days. They like their food dainty than to criticise the means, lying clouds. It was visible for 201 sad wi' abort intervals between. especially when such are barm- minutes, and was accompanied That prevents the distended feel-less and give some measure of by a very heavy downpour of ing, besides doing away wit the occupation to otherwise idle rain, which affected only a smsil necessity of continually letting ladies. Under the circumstances, part of the esplanade. aut their corsets. What's more to lecture on the moral sod forbye, if the Matron up yonder mental value of self-suffieing giv
took to giving them Scotch brothing would simply be a waste of Cano, Einan, Kremler, Kalba, Fachmanu every day, they wouldna' be able time. to foxtrot nearly as well at At the same time, though,
night."
there's lots o' folk no' what you'd
"That may be," said Janet," but call altruistic when it comes to it doesna' prevent them from spending money at Bazaars and
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