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WHO SPEAKS ENGLISH?
True scholarship is largely the
DUMPLINGS
TS our capacity for eating declin- was far too much food in the
tople as what constitutes accept-cently to his able English by the simple process of framing his inquiries about it In a slightly unconventional way. Many writers have asked, What is acceptable Engilah? But Profes- sor Lloyd-James inquires, by whom la acceptablo English spoken?
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The Very Idea!
FRIENDLY FOOTBRAWL
By Eddie "Blackeye” Kelly. art of nsking the right questions Ing7, Everybody who writes dining-room. To sit down to dine
TN the course of a friendly In evidence of this, Professor
football match last week ENGINE OVERHAULS | Lloyd-James, chief speech adviser on the subject scoms to take for her with a turkey and a goose on
spleed beef on the sideboard was between H.M.S. · Bruce and to the B.B.C., has been able freshly granted that 'it is. -CYLINDERS
to illumine even "so hackneyed a A correspondent, returning re- to alt down to a potential riot of H.M.S. Wishart, Bruce's
native South of gluttony. They certainly satisfied England, has observed a little sadly the gluttony of the eye that gazed goalkeeper was kicked in
potite. falled--I always ato too field unconscious. that in Sussex and Hampshire ap- at them, but in practice, the ap: the face and carried off the petitos are not what they used to much, but not more than I should
We don't need the news- be. No longer do housewives pre- eat, if I were a boy, to-day.
In reading the list of dishes papers to tell us that it was pare meals on the undertaking that their husbands and sons "cannot served at the
ive unless they are given roly generations, we are apt to make we want to mention at this tables of bygone a friendly game, and what puddings, plain or suet, every day the mistake of imagining that with their meat, followed by plum-overybody present ate gigantic stage is the shocking amount challenging. Both President Roo-duff (which belongs to Hampshire) portions of every dish. Perhaps, of effeminacy that is creep-
or fruit - ples and puddings someone 100 years hanco, (Sussex), doughboys for breakfast, covering a restaurant menu being into sport. numerous cakes for tea, again pies longing to the London of 1933, will. for suppor."
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His reply le informative, and sevelt and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, ho contends, are within its limit ing bounds, Viscount Snowden is almost, and Mr. J. H. Thomas ho places à long way outaido, while
A lighter diet, according to the correspondent, is now the rule, Mr. Stanley Baldwin just manngea myself," he confesses mournful to pass mustor. Right in thely, "cannot eat so much duff as middle are King George V and Mr. | my mother and grandmothers Winston Churchill. The advant- | made in my childhood's days." - age of this method of arriving at MEN LIKE what constitutes correct English is DUMPLINGS. obvious.
DEFINITE MEANING
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Football is getting far too
similarly rush to the conclusion friendly. Every match we read that the men of our generation ate about nowadays in a friendly heartily of every dish. mentioned game, and that we must have had per- |fectly Gargantuan appetites.
Even the menu of an ordinary banquet will suggest a picture of pig-like greed to a race that has learned to be content with grated carrots and salads.
We have given up watching football ourself, because, re- peatedly, we have been bored to distraction by the sight of big, able-bodied men fiddling around with a ball when they should have been belting Bovril out of cach other.
Rugby and Soccer' rules need drastic revision if this sport is to survivo. We have formulated a
Tributes like this to the enor Yet, when one goes to a banquet,
Football is a game that should of bygone days what a spectacle one sees of strong be taken mous appetites always make pleasant reading. men quilting berore the edible cricket has been brightened up by seriously, Look how We like to imagine our ancestors abundance that is offered to them the introduction of "Body-line" sitting down to heaped dishes of men who cannot cat oysters, men We also frequently hear of tennis In these days of wireless broad-Indigestible food and gobbling who are scared of soup, men who players being smashed about the enating and talking pictures, them till they could gobble no peck at a partridge as if they were court. nearly everybody knows how Mr. more-strong men with rosy smiles nervously estimating the number
Most football players we know seem to think that all they have to Roosevelt and Mr. MacDonald who had never heard the word of calories they dared swallow, talk, and a statement that both "dyspepsia." The very names of men who leave the ice half-eaten, do is to bounce the ball in between auch dishes as "dumpling" and men who eny "no" to the savoury, the goul-posta. This sort of thing speak an English classed as ac- "pie" fill the imagination with a The strange thing is that the men from chops who were made by ceptable conveys a definite' mean- senso of infinite well-being. A who behave like this are commonly nuture to kiek huge chunks out of ing in almost all parts of the hearty farmer feeding a body men who look like gluttons. See each other is one of the principni world. Moreover, the mere fact shaped like a huge dumpling with ing one of them, you would say to reasons why football ia degenera
dumpling does he not seem the yourself, "That is a strong man; ting into a game for aisales. that two so widely differing most enviable of men?
he must have the appetite of a speakers are approved, vividly gets It is certain at least that nine horse." Not he, however, alas! across the comforting assurance out of ten of us got a peculiaris mind in concentrated not on that correct English. is not a term pleasure from reading descriptions the glorious good before him, but new set of Rules which we will pass to be reserved exclusively for one of excessive meals. Parson Wood-on the tablet in his pocket that to the football association free and particular system of oral noises, forde's diary owes its popularity he hopes to be able to swallow without charge upon application at
1. The team but is rather a capacious blanket largely to the impression it con- without being noticed before the this office.
shall consist of under which many varying kinds eys that the world in which he meal is over.
lived was populated by gluttons. It is my half-conviction that twenty a side, provided that, if at any time supporters think their of speech may take cover. It is, How attractive a figure again is there have been food-packers of team is losing, they may join in RECOGNITION AT however, a blanket which is con- the ravenous walter in "David this kind in all generations, and the fight.
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stantly changing its texture. For, Copperfield!" We may like our that even in the great days of Bavarian Dances (Elgar, Op 27) London Symphony Orchestra.
according to Professor Lloyd-heroes and saints to be abstemi Roman gluttony there were cau- ous, but our hearts warm to a tous entors who would have pre Fire Bird (Stravinsky)-Dance of the Fire Bird-Philadelphia Or
The expiveted has happened by | James, the pronunciation of that
hearty enter,
ferred a bowl of gruel to a long Khowantchina-Entr'acte (Mousnorsky)
Philadelphia Symphony Orch, the conclusion of the agreement | important vowel "a" is gradually
I am myself inclined to doubt succession of rich and rare dishes taking the United
On a cockney tinge. In whether these voracious eaters of such as the human boa-constrictor Chicago Symphony Orchestra, whereby
States
this respect he says Englishmen the past ever existed, or, at least, loves, I doubt if Homer ate more are beginning to talk something whether voracious appetites were ravenously than the younger pacts Chicago Symphony Orchestra. "grees to recognise the Soviet.
At long Inst, America has been like the vernacular found in a ever very much commoner than of our own day, or if Shakespeare Tannhauser March (Wagner) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra,
brought to a realisation of the novel of Dickens. Whether or not they are to-day. The evidence could have kept pace at the table Damnation of Faust-Hungarian March (Berlloz)
overwhelming, but I cannot accept broker. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. absurdity of ignoring the exist- this is the fact, opinions will that they were so appears to be with n
differ; but, allowances being made it. I can look back over half a Boston Symphony Orchestra. ence
of a regime which has for changes in cockney itself, it century of eating, and I can re- THE IDEAL
member Boston Symphony Orchestra persisted over a period of sixteen would certainly appear that, in a
по more conspicuous Boston Symphony Orchestra.
limalted way, Englishmen Doubtless the main con-
We see the past through rose- may jump on are examples of voracity in the world years.
G. The game shall be decided, beginning to talk, if not better, of 50 years ago than are to be coloured spectacles, however, and
seen to-day.
like to think that our ancestors after the initial scrummage, by any rate "Weller."
I once met a man who was said lived in a Golden Age of eating. each team taking alternate turns to be able to consume a whole The ordinary man shrinks from at leaping on the stomach of the duck at a meal, and who looked heavy meals, but he likes to think opposing captain, who shall be held the Tart, but his appetite-was-so of other people eating heavy meals, down by n gang of umpires exceptional that it was the talk because eating is no much plea- Whichever captain gets tired of it of annter in the imagination than in first will lose the match for his of the countryside. In most
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the houses that I knew meat was reality. As we read of our an-side. seldom eaten more than once acestors with their dumplings and day. You might be given five or ples, we become gluttons by proxy six kinds of baked bread as well-the ideal form of gluttony. as several kinds of cake at tea in a farmhouse enough to make any child ravenous-but her few such meals that developed into orgies of over-cating.
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sideration actuating President Roosevelt in deciding to accord recognition is the fact that such. differences as exist between the two nations are more likely to The Navy has long been dear to be composed by normal diplo- the Englishman's heart. A grow matic intercourse than by con- ing consciousness of humanity's need for disarmament places hin, inued aloofness.
therefore, in somewhat of IL recognition policy hitherto has quandary. He is loath to loss his been based on three main objec pride in the Navy. Yet, if at all tions --non-payment of war pacifically minded, he feels that it debts, confiscation of American is too militarlet an institution to property in Russia, and fears of conform to his ideals. While CHRISTMAS propaganda for world revolution, there are political partisans who APPETITE.
decry any attempt to lessen naval There were, I admit, occasions On the first of these points, it armament, the mass of the nation such as Christmas Day when there is sufficient to say that non-
approves of the reductions already recognition has not helped in the made in the fleet, and yet is very collection of the debts, whilst in far from welcoming the thinning | regard to the second it is a fact | of naval ranks. The bluejacket is that numerous American firma | always a popular figure, embody- have already adjusted their ing as he does qualities hardly to claims for property nationalised be found in such rare combination during the revolution, and in civil life. The British Navy is, recognition may facilitate fur-In fact, a unique educational in ther settlements. These two stitution, capable of assimilating
the most mixed elements of the. points will be fully explored now nation and imbuing them with that recognition is an accom- manliness and manners. One does plished fact. So far as propa- not stay long in Hongkong before ganda is concerned, the Soviet appreciating the meaning of that. has given a definite pledge to America, and any breach thereof
would jeopardise future rela-bringing together of the two tions. In any event, fears of a nations. It would, however, be spread of Communism in Ameri-folly to ignore the fact that en are not now so marked as they | Japan is bound to look with on the rap- were some years ago, in which much disfavour connexion It may be noted that prochement, fearing American Communism only polled one per moral support for Rusala in the cent. of the total vote in the event of any clash between her- last Presidential election. One self and the Soviet.. Thus, from dofinite undertaking contained ], the standpoint of Pacific rela- in. the agreement is that there | tions, America's latest stop may
apprehensions of. will be no prosecution of Anteri- increase
can citizens in Russia for trouble rather than conduce to an improvement in the situation. "economic espionage," and there need thus be no fears of another None the less, recognition WAB Metro-Vickers affair. Tangible bound to come sooner or later, benefits which are expected from and Japan's fears would seem the new policy include mutual to be based on an unjustified and trading advantages, and it is somewhat far-fetched. 'Inter- further suggested that world } protation of America's real mo- peace may be helped by the lives.
The growing number of cookery- books by men, on the other hand, is evidence that in our own day
the passionate love of food is not A rare as it is generally belloved to be. I know a good many men- most of them bachelors-who talk about food with a mystical light in their eyes. They are apostles (Continued on Page 4.)
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"THE THREE SISTERS" » Faith, the eldest of the thros lovely sisters, packed her two pairs of acantics into a brown paper bng and departed for Hong- kong, leaving Hope and Little Charity weeping, quietly.
Each of Faith's lettera were full of wonderful stories of the glamour of the East. Hope, and little Charity na woll, divined from each that Faith was growing more and more captivated by Hongkong. Hope decided to join Faith.
The same charming progress that Faith had experienced seemed to fall to Hope. Faith and sho were therefore not greatly surprised when, two years later, Faith re- ceived at her flat a note from Charity to say that she, too, was on her way to the Colony.
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Faith sent her limousine to pick up littlo Charity at the wharf when the P. & O. liner arrived. - While they bought lingerie and frocks and shoca and hats and shoer silk stockings so that little Charity would not feel dowdy.
But the car arrived back without Charity.
Just as Faith and Hope wore fooling terribly. alarmed for poor little Charity, alone in bad Hong- kong the amah announced horar-
·rival.'
Sho was preceded by dozens and dozens of boxes of ingerlo and frocks and shoes and hats and ahser.. Bilk stockings, as well as three servants. Then she herself -ar- rived, wearing the finest of silks and laces and furs with tho amar- test of hats and shoes.
Faith and Hope took one long knowing, look at her.
It was only then they realla that Charity began at Home