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NOTES OF THE DAY
MERE "GADGETS"
Because the parents of the Dionne quintuplets are still good "copy," the Associated Press sent out a story that they missed at- tending church one Sunday. They were in Chicago, where, under the nn amusement management of promoter, they have been present. ed to vaudeville audiences, says the Christian Science Monitor. Many people miss church attendance who cannot even offer the excuse of too strange much sight-seeing in a
incident, how-
metropolia. The ever, does throw into high relief the attitude of the sturdy little doctor of the children when New Yorkers enthusiastically extended him welcome a few weeks ago, There was something rather ad- mirable in the way Dr. Dafoo refused to be swept off his mental feet on his first visit to that city. It was all very interesting. the sky-scrapers and the subways, the Broadway crowds and the electric signs, but one gathered that the doctor classed them na wadgets which could not decoy him into forgetting that the fundamentals of life were to be found just as readily in the little town of Callen- der, Ontario.
THE SIMPLE LIFE
He is quoted as saying recently: The people whom I know beat, the familles of the far-flung Canadian countryside among whom I have practiced for more than a quarter of a century, in many, respects lend poverty-stricken lives." But they are rich in faith, devout. believers and attendants at their church, and their children are the better for ." How many less simple folk are letting a preoccupation with material "gadgets," a never satis- fied search for entertainment, or just indolence, keep them too fre- quently from seeking the truly "better things" of life?
Our King and Queen
on their Silver Jubilee
Princess May and her three brothers. Even as a girl of fourteen.father, Edward, was then only Wales.) The be Princess Victoria May of Teck, Prince of
one day to be the Empire's trothal, it was whispered at the A SUBSIDY IS A SUBSIDY
President Roosevelt has run up Queen, was as comely and grace-time, was a "state affair." It is a battle flag over the American ful'a princess as any in the land, now common knowledge that merchant marine. His special message to Congress calling for
The Very Idea!
TONGUE-TIED WOMEN
By CECIL PALMER
It is extraordinary that although women have now. penetrated al- must every 'sphere of public life, still comparatively few of them are capable of doing themselves Justice when they have to mako n specch.
At home their gift of tongue is usually superlativo. But deprivo them of the benign tolerance of their family circles, und, for all oratorical
риграме, they are tongue-tied..
I happen to have earned a most unenviable reputation for making amusing after-dinner speeches- unenviable chiefly because the in- exorable tyranny of having to be humorous not infrequently drives me to my wits' end. And the hon- our thrust upon me is irksome and
another embarrassing for equally cogent reason.
and
I am now badgered (with dis- arming politences, admittedly) by ambitions women who naively re-
quest, me to waste my time writing. speeches that will not waste theirs. Every public speaker knows that of ""The proposing the tonst Ladies" is an exceedingly tricky business, But it is oratory in the kindergarten stage compared with the effort required to interpret what a woman would like to say who has not the foggiest idea what
or how to say it. The one and only man who might have made a success of the job is William Sharp, alias Flona Maclend-and he, alas! is dead.
Women speech-makers-with
A
classified into three groups. There few brilliant exceptions--can be
are those whose matter is superlor
to the manner of its presentation. There are others whose manner of
MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1935.
YOUTH AND WAR It is interesting to speculate how long the institution of war could be maintained if it were impossible to persuade all young,
Trained early in life in queen-both the Princess and the Doké untried soldiers that the affair subsidisation of private ship inly ways, she became a woman of were genuinely fond of each was a gay and glamorous adven-terests is a blunt declaration of
American shipping policy. It car-perfect assurance, touched, when other. ture. The young fellow who i9ries foren and direction that has the occasion demanded, with the| But the betrothal of Princess presentation disguises very thinly starting off for the front in-hitherto been conspicuously lack- variably goes with a song and a smile. How he comes back may be something else again; but at least he starts out with the conviction that the sky is blue, that he is a stout fellow, and that unimaginable excitement and daring deeds are ahead of
ing.
methods are calculated to dissipato the good effects of a good dinner
It calls a spade a spade. haughtiness and dignity de- May and the Duke of Clarence the poor quality of the matter. This is more than can be said for munded of royalty, but capable was broken by death. Prince And there is that large and grow- policies that hitherto have camoa- flaged subsidies as low-interest-at all times of displaying the Albert Vielor died in January, ing section whose matter and bearing loans for private ship-human emotions, characteristic 1892, and Edward's second son, for, ocean mail contracts. But it of the loving wife and mother. Prince George, became heir to
To-day's 'picture shows Prin-the throne. also entalla grave responsibilities. The President says in effect that subsidisation should cover
the Cess May (as she was known be difference in relatively higher cost fore her marriage) at the age
bulking, and as inflated payments
Again the whisper of "state
with almost startling suddenness.
It is my bellef that women, as a whole, continue to fall as speech- makers because they will not die- the secrets of public speaking is
him. All this was called to mind of building and maintaining Amer- of fourteen. With her are her reasons" was heard when, a few cover for themselves that one of
recently by publication
of aican ships, and that it should take
newspaper photograph showing
a cunning and subtle, combination of art and artfulness. Women, in
into consideration subsidies which brothers, Prince Adolphus (left), months after the death of the Duke, Princess May was en- other governments grant their Prince Francie (right) and alripping. The problem this policy ovokes is not one of direction but (sented) Prince Alexander, now/gaged to marry Prince George, fact, ought to be superlatively of distance. To determine how Earl of Athlone. They were Perhaps they did not know the good public speakers, for there is far the United States shall go in granting subsidies on the basis of chlidren of Francis, Duke of story of how Prince Albert Vic- very little In art that they cannot the amounts which foreign govern- Teck. This picture was taken in tor, on his deathbed, drew his feel and very little about artful- ments grant their shipping is to
brother George to him and said:ness that they do not know. adopt an elastic yardstick which 1881.
"Take
care of her for me, Another secret of successful after-dinner speaking that strange- Intense international competition
ly eludes most women is the fact has stretched to the breaking point in many maritime nations.
that virtually no effort of wit is ta mako well-fed audience laugh. And the simplest required of all methods of producing this comforting and encouraging effect Is the exploitation of the gentle art of pulling one's own leg.
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Nine years later, when the beautiful Princess was 23, she George.”
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was betrothed to Prince Albert: To this day, it is said that the adventure. And to look at it is
Victor, Duke of Clarence, heir in Queen still wears the ring given to feel a deep regret that ex perience is, after all, the only
The problem confronting Con-succession to the throne. (His to her by her first-betrothed. teacher to which youth will Kress is to decide what practical limitations it shall place upon the listen. Young men have been Administration's policy. Failure going off to war through endless to recognise this may allow the centuries, and each time they United States to drift into the thick of an economic war. There started out in just this way is no other name for the struggle with smiles and laughter and nations are waging to sustain their expectant cheers, to bump into foreign trade services. The Pre- sident's appeal for in "adequate" reality.quite unlike their brave merchant marine places upon Con- expectations. Probably Caesar's gress the responsibility of decid- legions pulled out of Rome withing whether subsidies shall be granted to maintain America's the same air-only to find out, essential shipping services-on an when they got into the thick of equal basis with foreign competi things in Gaul, that there was tion or whether the Government shall administer artificial stimulua precious little romance in having to American shipping to sustain a Gallic speara stuck into their reckless rivalry with other nations. stomachs, and that soldiering carries with it an uncommon amount of bridge-building, dilch-
A favourite occupation of physl- digging, and similar back-break-
cal scientists is the carefree up ing and unromantic jobs. Every setting of history, fables, or com- army since then has had to mon belief by the insertion of facts learn the same sort of lesson. which prove or explain how things really happened. From time im- The Crusaders started out with memorial the good dirt regions of fluttering banners, and discover-earth have been considered stable. ed that typhus was one of those Even the Romans, famed Instiga-
tora
of tall stories, never thought features of war that they had of calling the ground anything but not thought about. In the Boer terra firm Now, Dr. Harian War the same story was repeat-Stetson, Harvard astrophysicist, ed, while the young Germans tells us that not only are we walk- ing on a thin upper "crust" of a who gaily chalked "Nach Paris" wrinkled old apple called Earth, on their railway cars as they left but oven this crust heaves to and fro like the tides of the sea. Berlin had no way of foreseeing Everyone knows the son has its the horrors of Verdun and ebb and flow, but no one guessed Ypres. And so it goes. The that land arens could be affected history of war is one long, tragic likewise until Dr. Stetson said so. clocka or chronometers, and more careful squinting at the stars, he corrected those "clocks" to the split second and found that Europe and Amor- ica drift apart as much as sixty- three foot twice dally and como together again by a similar amount.:
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"Four months of it! Europe, Africa, the Orient--and nobody to talk to. but Charles!"
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A ntory told against oneself will reduce the most stubborn and phlegmatic audience to tears-or laughter. And this is precisely the last thing in the world that a self-respecting woman will agree to do. The art of the ridiculous In the sense in which it over- flows the pages of Pickwick, for example-is almost non-existent
In women.
And finally, here are B fow "ps" for women who aspire to challenge man's supreme oratory1
(1) When you get up to speak, have something to say, any it,,and sit down.
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(2) Remember that you addressing your audience ar a whole. Therefore spoak clearly and use your lovely eyes to focus the attention of those sented far-- thest away from you. It flatters them and, if your speech is ronson. ably decent in quality, they will flatter you.
(3) Don't keep on telling the chairman how honoured you feel in being asked to speak. No man likes to be told publicly that he has no sense of selection.
(4) Remember with humility In your heart that a short, good speech is only a little better than no speech at all.
And now having put the cat among the pigeons, I give format notice of my early departure for tho Canary Islands.