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her infinite wisdom nature! has placed this passion's potency-second only to hun-f ger
thus ensuring the con- tinuation of the race.
We call it love: we are its' instrument. At least, most of us allow ourselves to be.
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There are, of course, other considerations to tempt people Into matrimony.
than to make a
mistake by
It is beginning to occur to most of the fow civilised people how resident in Great Britain that marriage is altogether too marriage when there was no casy and divorce cruelly too cking out to be done on a wage difficult. I foresee the day when that never will increase, and only the very best of people possibly might suddenly cease physically and mentally will he altogether.
permitted to marry. the furniture and Imagine it: Two young people
WALTER he sees
[GREENWOOD"
who paid damages of £700 to Miss Alice Myles, the "inspiration"
of the play that ́brought him suc- cess-"Love on the Dolo"-in
settlement of the breach suit she
brought against him.
And which, by the way, con-
that
furnishings
with not the slightest know- once were no e ledge of themselves, let alone citingly new now of the other party to the mar- shamed to insig ringe and of the wide world in nificance by the which they are about to embark, latest temptations
in brilliantly-lit assuming the responsibilitics of
a home and a family. .shop windows. And she knows it
often is useless A friend of mine said to me pleading with him, recently that he never can see since all the en- two young people in this pre- thusiasm of early dicament without fervently hop- married life has ing that their sensibilities are
mercifully blunt.
gone.
It would seem that where matri- I felt it would be rough luck
They marry because they are lonely. They marry to escape the intolerable stagnation of their home and the tyranny.of relations; some women to cscape the stigma of spinster- hood. And in both sexes mar- ringes have been known to occur 'for the most serdid of all tribute to the universal popu- mony in concorned-or anything on both parties if my friend'
larily of such dream men as the else in human affairs, for that fervent hope was not fulfilled. motives: that of money.
We have only to look around When I refer to marriage the late Rudolph Valentino. The matter--common sense is about
us to see the pathotically spuri- English form is implied, to the frantic demonstrations at his the last thing used.
I should say that the most ous substitute that successfully legal obligations of which the funeral by thousands of married slightest consideration is never women were not a flattering satisfactory marriage would be masquerades under love's name. given until the man and the testimonial to the power of their that when both parties enter See a man or woman fron- into it with the utmost reluc- ziedly consumed by the disgust- woman find they would like to husbands' personal appeal, extricate themselves from its
tance, with a deep respect for ing and atavistic impulse of each other, with a full recogni- jealousy, and immediately their These bickerings, quarrels, tion of the immense obligations, conduct will be condoned on the The fact that familiarity. and disenchantments are not, and, most important of all, with grounds of “love." sometimes breeds contempt is
As though love could ever be not appreciated until the dis- of course, the fault of marriage, an income adequate to their
but rather the fault of bad man- needs.
jealous. enchantment consequent on see- ing one's hero snoring with his ners, intolerance, and too high mouth wide open or one's hero- expectations. Inc rlying
consequences.
CANCER RESEARCH
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It is not fair to expect mar- Love is not for everybody:
nor the floods drown it."
Students of medical research are Maybe we were, but, as HE MADE the WHEELS
Go ROUND things, upon this squared
paper."
dishevelled from If you elevate a person on to a sleep paves the way for the pedestal yours, should be the rage to survive the test of on the contrary, it is for the marital bickerings which seem blame when experience reveals poverty. The test of two people very select few, and if in its To all the fighting nations in so amusing to those who haven't that person's proper stature. having to live together in the essence it is not comprehensive samic house is often strain its name has been taken in vain. the Great War it soon became to put up with them. Rudy Vallee & His Orchestra. evident that, no matter which
If you expect honeymoon pas. enough.
It is to be found only in the sions and charms to last for
truly noble nature-it is bound- Even Mr. Berhard Shaw, one less, it is free, and altogether "ACCENT ON YOUTH”
side might gain the victory, all
ever you are a fool. But most
of the would suffer a terrible after- NOTES OF THE DAY of us do not realise that very kindly of men, has on his own earth-it is a light that shines most courteous and lovely. It rescues us from the soon we shall all be dead, and confession to segregate himself in the face and in the eye. Ridin' Up The River Road-Fox Trot. Jan Garber & His Orchestra. math in the form of disabled widows thrown on their
that every birthday sees another from his wife during those year added to our age. "TOP HAT"
hours he devotes to his profes- Great waters cannot quench resources, and children
One of the most difficult problems rendered orphans in consequence
We full so easily into the error sion. confronting British medical author- of the war.
In 1917 the British ities to-day is that of cancer, which of high expectation of our own Government began to prepare is responsible for a relatively high martyrdom and of believing that for the tragic conditions await-percentage of deaths every year, we were born for happiness. this ing many of the war's victims,
devoting a cunsiderable amount of world goes, what we expect and and the Ministry of Pensions time and labour to the cause of what we receive are two differ- was inaugurated. The practi- the disease. Though the problement things. cal assistance rendered by the remains unsolved much has been
Carlyle's computation of the accomplished, and the twelfth an- Ministry has been a great boon nual report of the British Cancer number of fools in these islands millions of people. In the Campaign, which was recently pre- does not require modification.* to case of many, war pensions sented in the House of Lords, in have been the sole means of Richard Himber & His Orchestra. existence; in others, the grants have served to improve the conditions and to brighten the S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. Lives of those who directly or
I see an instrument, a under-estimating his abilities and indirectly suffered from the students are directing their ener-in, when possibly happiness— wounds of war. The extent of gies into the field of cancer re- generally invisible-stands by thing of angles and sides,
levers, joints, valves, strains; Greenock on January 19, 1736, the work of the Ministry of search. During the year the Can- their side.
cer Campaign has made grants for The spinster civies the mar-
£32,000. riell woman's home; and often and stresses. I build accord- Like many men who subsequently research amounting to from the fact that forty per These grants have aided in determi-the married woman says, "If ing to the laws of science. achieved fame he was an Indifer
Ining several new factors concern-
only I had my time cent. of the men who served in ing the identification of the agents again I'd never get married." heavenly tones of flutes his school mates to be a dull, un- over You may talk about the cat scholar and was considered by cancer, and the ways and means And she looks backward to For my part, I measure with af its growth. A seram has been those carefree days before her; produced which kills cancer cells("A Parliament speaking through reporter this foot rule and with this outside the body, under laboratory mostly fools.""Zatter-day Pamphlets,"") caliper and I draw these
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The Centenary Of Apart encouraging record. from the many achievements-- One can only sigh regretfully James Watt Took Place more particularly in the cases of to see the number of people con- animals afflicted with cancer--it is tent to fritter away their days satisfactory to note that interest in this branch of medical study is waiting for a sudden access of tapidly increasing, and maius more fortune, for their ship to come
conditions. Having reached this stage, the next step is to adapt the cerum so that it will work success- fully within living bodies. Good results have been obtained through special methods of using X-rays, though the methods have not yet effected complete extermination., A scheme has been evolved to form a Com- Clinical Cancer Research mittee, which will work in close association with the teaching hos- pitals. Such a plan should prove extremely fruitful, for it will en able all observations and records to be mobilized for the benefit of research workers.
the war have received compen-which have the power to cause sation from the nation, either directly
or through- their dependents. The total expendi- ture.
pensions from the beginning of the War to the end of next March, the close of the financial year 1935-36, will have amounted to £1,192,000,000. In 1020-21, which was the peak year, the total number of the beneficiaries-men, women and children---was 3,500,000. During that year the expenditure Was £106,000,000 and the staff employed by the Ministry numbered 30.000. Since the year 1921 the Ministry's work has diminished as its liabilities shared in the maintenance and have gradually decreased, but the Ministry still ranks high education of 1,750,000 children, among the spending Depart-the number at present receiving ments. During the current year help being about 26,000. Some the expenditure is estimated at of the education grants have approximately £42,000,000; the enabled children to pass on to beneficiaries number 1,006,000;
secondary schools, technical and the staff, including those in
colleges and universities-which the Ministry's hospitals, total four thousand. Those on the they would otherwise have found pension list include more than it impossiblą---
mon
war
400,000 men who suffered dis- from the granting of pensions abilities, their average age being and allowances, the Ministry forty-seven years; 120,000 | maintains ton hospitals in vari- widows; and 240,000 parents of
ous parts of Great Britain for killed in the war, whose age is now on an average about men still suffering from 70 years. An important part wounds. Besides the resident 140 ex-Service of the Ministry has been the patients, some guardianship of many children men are admitted weekly for of ex-Service mon. In this res- treatment to Ministry hospitals, pect the Ministry has worked in clinics and other establishments. close association with. voluntary All in all, the Ministry's record local organisations in all parts is one of which the nation and of Great Britain; they have the Empire may well fed proud.
to Ituncombe and the twenty-seven millions,
So said James Watt, the in- ventor of the steam engine, who was born a hundred years ago last Sunday.
On Sunday 7-see-no-choir of angels. tinually under the temptation-of-
Like most great men Walt was a man of rare modesty; he was con-
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
"Look on the society page and sca If you can find out whore I was Jaat night."
achievements.
Juines Yatt Wis born in
inspiring fellow.
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This was probably due to hie feeble health; but there was one
exception in bis list of defects, an a scholar-even at an early age he showed a high aptitude for mathematics and he was at all times extremely deft with his On- gers. This mathematical aptitude and his cleverness with his hands was inherited from his father and grandfather.
After a short spell of business in London, Wutt tried to open a shop in Glasgow but was prevented by the Incorporation of Hammer- men on the ground that he had not served a proper apprenticeship.
Fortunately some of the pro fessors at Glasgow University were more far-seoing, than the hammermen and they secured Watt's appolatment as maker of mathematical Instruments to the -University,
In the course of his dutica. he had a model of Newcomon's engine to repair and was at once struck. with its possibilities and its do fects. He nobed in particular its enormous consumption of steam. He then entered upon a period of * Intense scientific investigation of the properties of steam.?
Perhaps the most dedantiemate ment of his career was "one" "Jun- day afternoon" early 'in" 1765,
He was walking on Glasgow. Green brooding upon his perennfal'' problem of the properties of steam; when the Iden flashed upon, him that If the steam, were con- densed in a vessel distinct from the cylinder it would be possible. to make the temperature of con- densation low and still keep the cylinder hot.
That moment was probably the. birth of the modern era of steam and all that it has meant for the industrial prosperity of the world..