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NOTES OF THE DAY
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WHO SPEAKS ENGLISH ?
True scholarship is largely the art asking
ROBERT LYND ́on
DUMPLINGS
our capacity for eating declin-1 was far
much food
the
In of dening the right queressor I ingt Everybody who writes dining-room, Toucit down to dine
Lloyd-Jamen, chief speech advisor
the tablo and a vast round of to the B.B.C., has been able freshly on the subject seems to take for her with a turkey and a goose on splead, beef on the sideboard was to illumina oven so. hackneyed a granted that it in.
A correspondent, returning reto alt down to a potential riot of tople as what constitutes accept- able English by the almplo process cently to lile nativo South of gluttony. They certainly satisfied
The Very Idea!
FRIENDLY FOOTBRAWL. By Eddie "Blachoyo" Kelly.
TN the course of a friendly Nootball catch last week
between H.M.S. Bruce and H.M:S.
Wishart, Bruce's
of framing his inquiries about it England, has observed a little andly the gluttony of the eye that gazed goalkeeper was kicked in In a slightly unconventional way. that in Sussex and Hampalilro ap- at them, but, in practice, the ap- the face and carried off the Many writers have asked, What la
much but not more than I should
We don't need the nows- Hor Lloyd-James Inquires, by whom be. No longer-do-housewives-pro-int, If I were a boy, to-day- Is acceptable English spoken? I paro meals on the undertaking that
In reading the list of dishes papers to tell us that it was
acceptable English? But Profen petites are not what they used to patite falled, I alwaya ato too field unconscious.
His reply is informative, and their husbands and sous "cannot served at the tables of bygonen friendly game, and what
challenging. Both President Roolivo, unions, they are given roly generations, we are apt to make savalt and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, puldings, plain or sust, every day the mistake of imagining that we want to mention at this he contends, are within its limit with their munt, followed by plum everybody present ato gigantic stage is the shocking amount ing bounds. Viscount Snowdon is almost, and Mr. J. H. Thomas, 110 } dull (which belongs to Hampshiro) portions of overy dish. Perhaps, of effeminacy that is creep-
100 years honice, dis ing into sport.
to
places a long way, outside, while or fruit pies and puddinga someone
Football in getting far too Mr. Stanley Baldwin just manages (Sussex), doughboys for breakfast, covering a restaurant manu bo-
similarly ruah pass muster. Right in the numeroun enkox for ten, again plus longing to the London of 1933, will
to the conclusion friendly. Every match wa raad middle are King George V and Mr. for suppor."
A lighter diot, according to the that the men of our generation ate about nowadays la a friendly Winston Churchill. The advant age of this method of arriving at correspondent, in now the rule, heartily of overy dish mentioned game. what constitutes correct English Is "I myself," he confessos mournful and that we must have had per-
ly, "ennot ent so much duff as fectly Gargantuan appetites,
mother and grandmothers nindo in my childhood's daya,"
MEN LIKE
obvious.
DEFINITE MEANING
ענה.
Even the menu of an ordinary | hangust will suggest a picture or pla-like greed to a race that has loathed to be content with grated carrots and salads,
We have given up watching football ourself, because, re- peatedly, wo 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 each other.
Tributon like this to the enor mous appetites. always make pleasant reading, men quailing, hetore the We like to Image our ancestors abundance that is offered to them cricket has been brightened up by tho Introduction of Body-lino". ceptable conveys a definite monn-} sitting down to hewpod dialios of)-ion who cannot eat oysters, mon We also frequently hear of tennis Indigestibls font and gobbling who are scared of our men were players being smashed about the
Yet, when one goes to a banquet,
Football in a game that should of bygone days what a spectacle one seas of strong to taken seriously. Look how
ediblo
court.
Aloat football players we know,'
In these days of wireless broad- | DUMPLINGH. casting and talking pictures, nearly everybody knows how Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. MacDonald talk, and a statement that both speak an English classed as ac ing in almost all parts of world. Moreover, the more fact them t they could gobble no peek at a partridgn as if they were that two so widely differing more strong men with rosy miles norvously untimating the number apeakers are approved, vividly gets who had never board. the word of eslorlos they dared swallow.seum to think that all they have to across the comforting assurance/ "dyspepsin." The very names of mon who love the leo half-eaton. do in to bounce the ball in between to be reserved exclusively for on "ple" All the tangination with a] The straingo thing is that the men from chaps who were made by that corroct English is not a torm nach dialon as "dumpling" nu] mon who, any "no" to the savoury the goal-peats. This sort of thing particular system of oral noinen, aanнo of infinite woll-being. A who bohave like this are commonly nuturo to kick huge chunks out of but is rather a capaelous blankot haurty farmer feeding a hody men who look like gluttons, Sou- each other Is one of the principal
with ing one of them, dumpling does he not seem the yourself. That is a strong mausting into a game for sissies,
he must have the appetite of a Rugby and Soccer rules need most enviable of mon7
horno."
Not he, however, alas! drnatic revision if this aport is to It is certain at least that ino out of ton of us get a peculiar la mind is concentrated not on survive. We have formulated to pleasure from reading descriptions the gloro ond before him, but now set of Rules which we will pass of excessive meals. Tarion Wood on the tablet in his pocket that to the football association free and forde's diary owen Its popularity he hopes to be able to swallow without charge upon application at largely to the impression it con- without being noiled before the this office, veya that the world in which ho meni is ovar.
It is my half-conviction that twenty a side, provided that, if at lived wán populated by gluttons. How attractive a figure again in there have boon food-peckers of any time supporters think their the ravenous walter in "David this kind in all generations, and team is losing, they may Join in
the fight. Wo may like our that oven in the grant days of; Copperfeki!" herous and saints to be abstemi-Roman gluttony there were cau- to a tious eaters who would have pro forred a bowl of gruel to a long I am myself Inclined to doubtf succession of rich and rare dishes whether these voracious enters of such as the human bon-constricter the past ever existed, or, at least, loves. I doubt if Homer ate more whether voracious appetites were ravenously than the younger poets
4-Penalty kicks shall be award- ever very much commoner than of our own day, or if Shakespeare ed to any player who, within fiec they are to-day. The evidence could have kept pace at the table minutes of starting, does not suc that they were no appears to be with a twentieth-century stock-ceed in chewing an opponent's car. overwhelming, but I cannot accept broker. it. I can look back over half a century of eating, and I can re- THE IDEAL
more conspicuous. member no examples of voracity in the world of 60 years ago than are to be seen, to-day.
of speech may take cover. It is, however, a blanket which in cons stantly changing its texture. For,. according to Professor Lloyd- James, the pronunciation of that Important vowel "a" is gradually taking on a cockney tinge. In this respect he says Englishmen are beginning to talk something like the vernacular found in a novel of Dickens. Whether or not this is the fact, opinions will differ; but, allowances being made for changes in cockney itself, it would certainly appear that, in a limited way, Englishmen are beginning to talk, if not better, it any rate "Weller."
THE NAVY'S OTHER JOB
DISARMAMENT
The disarmament altuation looka
oun, but our hearts warm hearty ontur.
GLUTTONY.
1.--The team shall consist of
2.-No player shall be penalised until he has been jumped on by the apposing team at least three times. 3-A player shall be deemed to have secured a try when he kills an opposing player. The gaol may then follow.
A penalised player, however, shall
J
| not receive hin penalty kicks below
the belt,
6. No more than ten players the referee at the may jump on one time.
6.The game shall be decided, after the initial scrummage, by I once met a man who was antd lived in a Golden Age of eating ach team talding alternate turas
CHRISTMAS APPETITE.
་
There wore, I admit, occasions such as Christmas Day when there
"We see the past through rose- coloured spectacles, however, and like to think that our ancestors
is evidence that in our own day the passionate love of food is not so rare as it is generally believed to bo. I know a good many men- most of them bachelors-who talk. about food with a mystical light| in their oven. They are apostles:
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There's 13 snakes I shee, boysh, Wrigglin's about like jellysh, But that don't worry mo, boyah, I'm snfo: anfe-hic--as Hell ish, For, if they tried to harm mesh, They'd very shoon be dead-lc Devoured by the armysh
Of eagles on my bed--hic!
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"THE THREE SISTERS" Faith, the eldest of the three lovely sisters, packed bor two pairs of scanties into a brown paper bag and departed for Hong- little kong, leaving Hope and Charity weeping quietly.
The Navy has long been dear to the Englishman's heart. A grow ing consciousness of humanity's need for disarmament places him, therefore, in
Bomewhat of a quandary. He is loath to lose his pride in the Navy. Yet, if at all paeifically minded, he feels that it is too militarist an institution to conform to his Ideals. While to be able to consume a whole The ordinary man shrinks from
opposing captain, who shall be held there are political-partisans who duck at a meal, and who looked heavy meals, but he likes to think at leaping on the stomach of the gang of umpires. recognition policy hitherto has decry any attempt to lesson naval the part, but his appetito was so of other people eating heavy meals, down by a been based on three main objec- armament, the mass of the nation exceptional that it was the talk because eating is no much plea. Whichever captain gets tired of it approves of the reductions already of the countryside. In most of santer in the imagination than in Arst will lose the match for his tions non-payment of war
made in the feet, and yet is very tho houses that I knew meat was reality. As we read of our an-side. debta, confiscation of American far from welcoming the thinning seldom eaten more than once acestora with their dumplings and property in Russia, and fears of of naval ranks. The bluejacket today. You might be given five orgies, we become gluttons by proxy. propaganda for world revolution. always a popular figure, embody-six kinds of baked bread as wall-the ideal form of gluttony. On the first of these points, it ing as he docs qualities hardly to as several kinds of cake nt ten in
The growing number of cookery. is sufficient to say that non-
be found in such rare combination a farmhouse-enough to make any books by men, on the other hand, recognition has not helped in the in civil life. The British Navy is, child ravenous--but I can remen collection of the debts, whilst in in fact, a unique educational In- ber fow such meals that developed regard to the second it is a fact stitution, capable of assimilating into orgies of over-eating. that numerous American firms the most mixed elements of the with nation and Imbuing them have already adjusted their manliness and manners.
One does claims for property nationalised not stay long in Hongkong before during the revolution, and appreciating the meaning of that, recognition may facilitate fur- thor settlements. These two points will be fully explored now that recognition is an accom- plished fact. So far as props anything but happy though the Im ganda is concerned, the Soviet has given a definite pledge to
portance of yesterday's develop ments can be over-stressed. That America, and any breach thereof there should be a conflict of vlow would jeopardise future rela- | regarding procedure is not difficult tions. In any event, fears of a to understand at this juncturo, any spread of Communism in Ameri- more than that three hours' of talk ca are not now so marked as they should fail to harmonise those were some years ago, in which views. Wavering la discernible in the attitude both of Britain and connexion It may be noted that
the United States, Italy is" frankly Communism only polled one per against further attempts to go on: cent. of the total vote in the France nbides by the strict logic last Presidential election. One of the situation and demands that definite undertaking contained the League must come first in the agreement is that there France is prepared to admit of will be no prosecution of Ameri- diplomatic negotiations, but insista can citizens In Russia for that they must ultimately conclude "economic espionage," and there at Genova. Much depends upon need thus be no fears of another the attitude of Mr. Arthur Hendor. Ron. He will not mind spending Metro-Vickers affair. Tangible more time over discussions of benefits which are expected from avenues towards a settlement if the now policy include mutual given reasonable grounds for in- trading advantages, and it is ferring that the Powers mean busi- further suggested that world ness. "If he comes to the opposite peace may be helped by the conclusion, his resignation from bringing together of tho two the Presidency of the Conference nations. It would, however, be would inevitably follow. Onco that occurred, nothing could pleca folly to ignore the fact that the rains of the Conference Japan is bound to look with together again. much disfavour on the rap prochement, fearing American moral support for Russia in the ***
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ovent of any clash between her- None the less, recognition was self and the Soviet. Thus, from bound to come sooner or later, the standpoint of Pacific rela- and Japan's fears would seem tions, America's latest step may to be based on an unjustified and increano
far-fetched inter- apprehensions of somewhat trouble rather than conduce to pratation of America's real mo- an improvement in the situation. I tives,
"I would make some man a darn good wife.”
Each of Faith's letters were fuli of wonderful stories of the glamour of the East. Hope, and little Charity as well, divined from each that Falth 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. Falth and she wore therefore not greatly surprised when, two years later, Faith re- ceived at her flat a noto from Charity to any that she, too, was on her way to the Colony.
Faith sent her limousine to pick
up little Charity at the whart when the P. & O. liner arrived. Whlio they bought lugorie and frocks and shoes and hats and sheer silk stockings so that little Charity would not feel dowdy..
But the car arrived back without Charity
Just, as Faith and Hope were feeling terribly alarmed for poor little Charity, alone in bad: Hong-. kong the amah announced her ar rival.
She was preceded by dozens and dozens of boxes of lingerie and frocks and shoes and hats and sheer ailk stockings, as well as three servants. Then she "horeeltar- rived, wearing the finest of milku and faces and fors with the smar- test of hats and shoes,
Faith and Hops took one long knowing look at her.
It was only then they realised that Charity began at Home.