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ANOTHER ROBERT LYND ESSAY
BOUT 130 Soropti- mists ("Sister- Optimists") sailed recently to
the United States to attend the Inter- national Convention of So- roptimists.
There are already, it is said, more than 50 Soroptimist clubs in Great Britain, and it is the boast of their members that they are the most punctun! ·| women in the country.
Their club meetings begin on the stroke of the hour; they break up at the appointed minute. Lunches and speeches begin and end as if regulated by clockwork.
I am strongly in favour of punctuality, but it seems to me that, if it is carried too far, it may easily be turned into a vive. The clock is a very useful in- strument, but I do not see why
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1938.
LAST CHANCE OF COMPROMISE
a dictator. Many people pro-
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to
Foreigners do not seem mind lato starts so much. Somo years ago, I went to a theatre in Rome about ten minutes late and found that most of tho audience had not yet arrived and that (with, as it turned out, some reason) nobody expected the curtain to rise for at least another quarter of an hour. But nobody cared. Possibly, since the triumph of Fascism, the Anglo-Saxon vico of punctuality has spread even to the Italian theatre.
-TT is certainly one of the proudest boasts of the Fascists that, since Mussolini
came into power, the Italian trains have been among the most punctual in Europe.
On the whole, however, the punctual people have the best time of it. They may not be the world's hardest workers, but they live enviably unruffled lives. If only they would stop
ARE YOU PUNCTUAL?
fess to find immense happiness in obeying dictators, but I doubt whether it is good for them, all the same..
What a nuisance punctuality
can be was shown lately when
trying to make the lives of the unpunctual a burden to them, I would praise them 48 unre-
Punctuality should be the oil that makes the wheels of life go smoothly. It should never be allowed to become bad vinegar.
THERE was I, panting around him are all as fresh as servedly as they praise them-
with the haste I had paint, having no consciences to selves. the B.B.C. decided on a policy made, flushed with apprehension compel them to exert them- of rigid obedience to the clock as I thought of my school- selves. in its programmes. Many master's gift for putting me in listeners will remember how the wrong with cruel words, and one evening a talk by Mr. C. B. working my brain at high pres- Cochran was cut off in tho sure in order to invent an excuse middle of a sentence in order that would win sympathy from
In spite of the reported and that the next part of the pro- python, while all the time the vice to you is: Be punctual." A GARDEN
WITH A
IF you want to have an casy life, my first ad- probably exaggerated optimismgramme might not be late.
punctual ones were sitting in I once knew a man who got And Mr. Cochran was in the chancelleries of Europe.
just the class-room with consciences through life admirably with no developments in the
coming to the best part of his selfishly at ease and basking in other qualification except pune- Russo-Japanese dispute
the sunshine of the niaster's tuality. He made it
a habit аге One can imagine how exas- approval.
always to be in the right place PAST rapidly tending to throw theseperating it would be to have the From a purely selfish point of at the right time, with the re- two powerful and natural foes broadcast of an exciting foot- view I would have given almost sult that his employers thought ball match faded out in the last anything on such occasions for him the most efficient man in the
current
talk.
James Stuart of Pinkie House.
into headlong collision. The critical five minutes or a sym- the gift of punctuality. To be office, and kept enthusiastically BOT name and place are royal- |high-lights of yesterday's phony cut short in the middle anpunctual was to walk into raising his salary. Yet he did Like a king he is commemorated in despatches from the Manchukuo. of the fourth movement.
a dangerous thunderstorm. It scarcely any real work at all. stone, and, a noble figure he makes may have been the more dif- He was so busy attending to his on his pedestal, with fis inscription:- cult thing to do and therefore watch that he had no time for! the more virtuous, but, it was anything else. decidedly unpleasant.
Russian bombardment, directed
PUNCTUALITY,
like
tidiness, it must be
JAMES STUART,
Korea-Soviet front were the Japanese reports of fierce fight-
1758-1830. ing which was obviously spread-
54 YEARS There are other than selfish ing dangerously fast along the
GARDENER AT PINKIE. affected border; the neutral admitted, can degenerate into a that the punctual people are the ever.
All through life I have found reasons for being punctual, how-
BORN AT BLAINSLIE, There is no doubt that by Reuter story of the thunderous bad habit. After all, it is only really happy people. See them being punctual you make other|
PARISH OF MELROSE. a convenience, not one
DIED 13TH MAY 1930, of the noble virtues. Dr. Johnson and offices in the morning, looking self.
as they sail into their business people happy as well as your- |
AGED 10 YEARS. against the Japanese positions Lamb did very well without it.
The bust is erected at the back and the spirited reply of the With many people, I suspect world, so gay as a result of hav- ally are
as if they had not a care in the Cheques that arrive punctu- of this historie mansion. From this Japanese; and, probably more it is a form of self-indulgence. ing arrived early that they can pleasure, such as we never get over the
point of vantage he gravely surveys & Cause of unalloyed his life's work, and the sight is good important than anything else. It is obviously much pleasanter scarcely settle down to work till from a dilatory, dawdling cheque. feet lown to the old pink prun
gracious
of per- the summoning of Japan's War to be punctual than to be late after lunch-time.
prunus that If postmen and the boys who when the usual colours of nature are every spring glows in rich beauty, Council and the conferences in for most things. The man who
Compare with them the un- bring found the morning papers pale in lue-whites or yellows; to Chater Road. Tokyo of her veteran generals. arrives punctually at a play, for punctual man. What a nerve- became unpunctual, what a great the left the famous sundial
Only in matters of the highest the miseries of the late-comer bolts for his train or bus! He would ensue! I like even cooks These giant, sweet-smelling plants none of racked expression he has as he diminution of human happiness lavender bushes of immense height. example, experiences
wall. danked on either side by : import are such conclaves called. who has to push his way to his has no joy in the sunlight. He to be punctual if they do not were, in ali ukelihood, planted by At no time during the Sino-stall past the angry Japanese hostilities has there men and women who, he realises, conscience-which
knees of arrives in the office with a bad expect me to be punctual too. him.
is another been such activity among the loathe hìm.
The truth is, even the most we enter his domain, and as we Through a Renaissance doorway name for a good conscience, a unpunctual of us, like other survey the tablets on the high walls Japanese military commanders. Even when I was a schoolboy conscience that is doing its pro- people to be punctual. I have we
in-as I hurried to school in the per work. When he sits down seen a man arriving five minutes Their Inscriptions ure in Latin, and urc reminded of Abbotsford. dications that at last the world morning not more than five or at his desk he is in no mood for late at a Rugby football match part of one of them reads:"In ways
ten minutes late, I could is awakening to the terrible
not light conversation. His con- which was supposed to begin at these for the honourable delight of help comparing my danger an extensive Russo-plight with the good fortune of Work! Work! Make up for lost match had not yet begun, he im-
unhappy science fiercely bids him "Work! three; and, finding that the body and of soul." Japanese clash may bring upon my fellow-pupils who had ar- time." And, by the time the mediately joined in the im-gardeners, is the proud record of
In 200
were father and son.
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on FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1938 Commencing 9.00 p.m.
have been swift and unadver- tised goings and comings at the
utmost to make their movements
probably done about three times the stands and declared angrily as much work as any man should that these late starts would be do, while the punctual sybarites the ruin oi club football.
Foreign Office, the Prime Minis-Russiang commenced mobilisa- ter and Lord. Halifax have tion in response to the Austrian hurriedly returned from their ultimatum to the Serbs. it was holidays, though they do their found impossible to stop the GRIN AND BEAR IT
progress of appear quite unextraordinary. In machines once they were under the- military Italy the press thunders against way, so it may well be now in Russia; and in Berlin it is this remote corner of the world, probable that diplomats of Changkufeng, It only remalus Germany and Japan have dis- for Germany-and-Italy to move cussed the extent to which toward Japan's assistance to Germany can assist her anti- have all the major powers tear- Comintern ally in a possible war ing at cach other's throats. with the Soviet. There was The prospect numbs imagination. newspaper talk of a test of the And still there is no apparent strength of the anti-Comintern attempt at mediation, but only alliance, in which Italy, Germany the expression of the feeble and and Japan are partners, And possibly insincere hope of the finally, according to the Tokyo chancelleries that "the affair War Office, the fighting lines in can be localised" and will not the danger area are slowly draw-involve major operations. ing nearer each other. The time Operations are already on is rapidly approaching when the dangerously large scale; and armies there will be at close there is no "localising" a major grips. One side or the other is war. Only by the exercising of going to win an advantage. common sense on the part
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and counter-attacks, and a catastrophe be avoided, for gradual strengthening of the apparently Changkufeng is tool opposing forces until there is a far afleld for the world to major action which will ond all appreciate what might grow out this protence and bring Moscow of its shell-torn trench lines, and and Tokyo into open warfare, there is to be no attempt at Just as in 1914, when the mediation.
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By Lichty
"That sort of thing olven me the shudders always slows »ch
lown for a couple of blocks,"
on the
of pleasantness he has laid out all
years only four different Pinkle House; of these, two at least
were the monks of Dunfermline, as The first owners of Pinkle House the site was a gift. of David 1, that "comfort of the sorrowing" und "best of his kin," turo consists of the square tower original struc- which now forms the centre of the house. Pinkle, as part of Invereak, belonged to Dunfermline Abbey.
In the sixteenth century Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermline, extended It greatly. As Chancellor of James VI he had often acted as host to that
King.
Would his lovely, Ill-fated, mother, Queen of the Scots, ever render more romantic theso lovely Would she ever sweep under the gardens ? arched doorways with her laughing train of Marys? Won not one of these a Mary Seton?
"There was' Mary Beaton
And Mary Seton
And Mary Carmichael, and me." A well of exceptionally cool water in the centre of the old garden was recently an Interesting and. This is now diverted to water the trim do- main of to-day. the house's only source of water in ay. It may have been the
twelfth
century.
The famous well in front of the mansion is ornate and coverod with heraldle
devices shows the work of an Italian sculp
and monograms; and tor. Its motto, translated from the Latin, is:From this fountain-un- surpassed for coolness and purity thero flows water benign alike for hend and for limbs."
When night falls and lengthen,
shadows pedestal
down from his deners to keep lusty nature in order. this king of gar For this true Stuart hates "an une weeded garden that grows to seed, and to famfilar is he with this soll that he is part of it.
perchance
Beals
E. MALA