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11. 1925

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

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EUROPE AT THE CROSS-WORDS.

From London came the ver dict, on the... authority of crossword puzzle was good only some newspaper editors, that the for a few months more. În Austria the Infection is only in the in- cipient stage and Italy was toying with the idea. In one of the care fest cross-word puzzles published In Italy, it is rumoured, the first word proposed was "The greatest Italian since Julius Cesar in Dine Totters," and someone pho sug gested "Garibaldi" was arrested for disturbing 15e peace. A wave- of enthusiasm for cross-words was reputed to be sweeping over the Dutch lowlands, while in France it seemed to be regarded as being "as perilous as the Spanish 'flu.'

In a speech "de- THE livered in Sydney, SCAPEGOAT Profeseor John

Adams said: Simi larly, many of our actions are in fluenced by ideas of which we know nothing. This is due to the unconscious mind, generally re- ferred to by doctors as the 'Unc.'" The irreverent rhymers of the Sydney "Bulletin," remark... Oh, when I feel blue.

acquainteach other with facts regarding the incidence of infec tious disease is now in full work Ing order and instead of having to depend on mailed reports, or merely news, which "Altered through," as our P.C.M.0, has put

How on going costs at least £1,500 a year. Has it, medical authorities now have

MORE BLOOD from a cold or any voice from within declared data to work on which is entirely

temperate region this to be no longer worth doing? authentic and which has arrived to the tropics the human body There are occasions, of course, with the least possible delay. produces a considerably increased when the diocese flocks to the Bafore the inception of the Bureau blood supply was referred to by Cathedral and fill its vast spacem it would appear that it was Professor Joseph Barcroft, deifver There are also considerable Sun- possible for ships to come to ing at the Royal Institution the day congregations, but there seems Hongkong or any other port with first. of his series of four lectures no sufficient reason why, upon out the authorities being aware of on, the effect of hear the other occasions, the services should the fact that infectious disease circulation. The professor ex-differ from those of the nearest was prevalent. In the port from plained how in the tropics there Parish Church, which the vessel came and a con-was a necessity for more blood in siderable danger must have been the body, and said that the run in passengers and cargo being increase which took place involved allowed to land without proper not merely the plasma, or watery part of the blood, but also the precautionary measures having been taken. However, that state corpuscles containing the homog of affairs is past and done with Rad blood corpuscles could not be labla. Here was the difficulty. now, and every week a folio or made rapidly. Possibly something two of coded "flimsies" acquaint Dr. Addison with the latest details per cent of the whole number of corpuscles in the blood in regard to the incidence or were broken down and replaced absence of infectious disease in by new ones dally. If one found practically every important port a sudden change in the number of in the Far East. Dr.: Addison corpuscles in the body it would looks forward to the time when only be that some corpuscles had still more information will be been stored out of the circulation made available by the Bureau as is a hiding-place that was to the mensures adopted for com- inaccessible to our census, and bating the disease in question and that on demand they were throw considers this will mark the into the circulation. No such store entrance upon a yet more import. was formerly known or suspected ant stage in the conquest of in the body. It had now been infectious disease. Although he discovered, however, and was the is not quoted as expressing him spleen. self further, it would not perhaps be too much to infer that he also

The attempt to had in mind the future grading

CUI BONO? popularise local of Far Eastern ports,, which is

choral services in one of the schemes of the League St. John's Cathedral on week of Nations. The proposal is that nights so for has not been success the Singapore Epidemic Bureau ful. The other evening there were shall do the grading and this, it is about 30 in the choir and three in thought, is going to prove the the congregation. The following bone of contention when the is from a Home journal:- matter is thrashed out later at The occasional visitor to Geneva, some of the respective | Cathedral services may be allowed | Governments holding that the to question whether those in com And my functions won't. declaration should be a matter for mand make the best use of their

func, that the only Government super- the health authorities at the incomes. They are imbedded in I know the bad fairy vision consists in a visit once a various ports. Whatever system ancient customs which only an Who makes me contrary- year-whether a surprise visit or its efficacy depends on

is decided upon, it is obvious that outsider has enough audacity to 'Tis only my Unc!

the eriticize. To attend a Cathedral not was not stated. It would be sir. erity of the grading, and if a service, especially on a week-day, is It is not my own choice easy to imagine a teacher with the port has not at the disposal of the When the door is shut upon the I am crabby or lazy

to pass into the eighteenth century.

Makes me sinner or mbak; necessary qualifications for im-medical authorities the equipment choir and the verger has disappear- Or sweet as a daisy parting a knowledge of English to for carrying out research and pre-ed until he is next wanted, there According to Unc,

ventive work then it should surely may, or may not, be two or three Chinese of the artisan class being be willing to admit this in order who have gathered together of their If away from my duty subsidised by, say. Bolshevik that other ports may be on their own accord, and it seems incon-

I do a sly bunk; interests, running his school for guard and subject ships arriving gruous to these, or at any rate has If I shy at life's riddles, six months, and then closing from that particular port to a seemed so to one of them, that the Ortell taradiddies, down after sufficient, mischief more stringent examination. If few dignitaries present are not It's all due to Unc.

a low grading is considered arrayed in full-bottomed wigs. had been done by way of under- humiliating then the remedy is The choir sings, not ancient, but Thank the fates for this know all mining Chinese workmen or ser- easily to be found.

old, respectable, passionters

This meddling quidaunc! vants. The insidious methods of

music, including the curious con- Now, whenever I'm naughty, ventional survival propaganda introduced by the

called I'll simply look haughty. anthem. The boys of the choir. And blame it on Unc. Bolsheviks make anything

It is a little comforting to know who would be better employed at possible. It would not be like that whilst we swelter in this school, beguile the tedious intervals their paid agents here to miss plum of a place, cities in Canada and most of those who contribute A NEW EXCUSE, you been until

of the service, after their manner, such an obvious opportunity of and the United States are suffer- either music or words have the air

this hour?"- ing from unprecedented heat. of being able to do it as well asleep spreading the cult of Bolshevism Ottawa and Montreal and New as awake. It is worth something

"To the lecture, dear," under the cloak of an innocent York have had "heat waves" of a

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MEMORIES OF OLD WESTMINSTER.

to practically inarticulate Chinese to get sizzled at this time of tlie but even a modest choral service ed very badly." whose enthusiasm to learn Eng- little grumbling to be heard. year and there is consequently lish provides an ideal inlet for the What is remarkable is the fact inculcation of any kind of modern that the authorities take no in- thought on any given subject. terest in our perspiring bodies

It is admitted that there are obvious sufferings.

and make no move to alleviate our It is left insufficient Government schools to entirely to private enterprise to cope with the demand. There is offer us cool and shady resorts Everybody who wants to get onllor and priest did invite to a likewise a paucity of voluntary these places additionally attrac- of good address, remarks the Henry III, "his house at Tothill and the wherewithal to make in the world knows the advantages ately dinner all the Court of schools of the type associated with tive. Of open spaces in the "Daily

Telegraph" (London), could not receive them" for there certain well-known religious centre of the town we are almost Belgravia is not as Pimlico, nor was such a multitude that seven. bodies who keep the teachings of bereft, A move might be made Kensington as Brompton. The hundred meszes of ment did not their particular creeds always in enticing. At the moment they when anyone was building new Fields, spreading wide to where to make the seats on Blake Pier builders of new streets in the days serve, for the first dinner." Tothill the background. There does are far from being so The streets) were careful to seek out Victoria Station now stands, be seem a necessity for a tightening Cricket ground would be none the for them names picturesque and came a favourite place for: Ancla of the control of all other schools. worse for shaded seats and a impressive. It is universally felt assassinations, and the drill of the Formal registration and informal kiosk in the middle would do no that an address which sounds well trained bands.

The Scottish pris visits once a year are surely quite. The Botanical Gardens gives a man credit, prestige, alid users whom Cromwell captured at It is a striking commentary inadequate to cope with the When the time arrives to recon- importance.

are far removed from easy access. an invaluable Benge of soil the Battle of Worcester were To be sure, we are driven like a herd of swine through on the haphazard methods. of obvious requirements of the struct or replan Hongkong, the not all agreed about what does Westminster to Tothill Fields," education to find that during position. If there is a genuine Gardens must be in Queen's Road sound well, and some of us scoff at and fliere sold to slavery in the the past three years no fewer demand for more schools, either the day, and in the shade and which appear on the notepaper of open ground till a century since, Here we shall hie in the heat of the preposterous, affected uddressde West Indies. The fields remained than 126 private schools for the teaching of English or for coolth gaze in peace on the won- others. But we can all understand when.. Dr. Vincent enclosed his have been registered for imparting the elementary rudi- ders of Dature, resting that the occupants of Broadway, square and a gas company was The purpose of teaching English ments common to a

the mind · and public school

the body Westminster, are objecting to being building on the road. to the ancient to the Chinese, whilst as many as at Home, that demand must be a greater degree than incorporated Tothill-street. ferry, But Tothill-street is the given us now. That day is far There is a certain levity about oldest in Westerminater. As early 103 were chand during the same met by the Government. If, for off. Perhaps the authorities will Tothill which inevitably makes it as the fifteenth century it was the period. The Chairman of the any good reason, It is unable to consider the idea of extending the "not a popular address with busi- home of a bishop, and by Eliza Education Board-the Director of provide the necessary accommoda- Pedder Street and Queen's Road things to be treated seriously. The mansions of the fower of the traffic platform at the junction of use people," who like serious beth's time it was made up of the Education-in reply to questions tion and the necessary staff, the extending it to enable it to in- of Broadway have a strong ease. elusive. The nobility and gentry vindicators of the separate existence gentry." Then it became less ex at yesterday's meeting of that Government must ensure that clude a kiosk, a band stand, and Their street has borne that narge built small houses on the site of body, stated that there is no fixed such inability is only temporary. Beats for say a hundred people! standard of qualification for the As the greatest. fault found with

for at feast two centuries, and in their big ones, Betterton was born teachers of these schools, but the present day education is the ten-

one of its courte lived for some there: Southerne lodged there over crowded hours of his glorious life an oil-shop. Burke liad a house suitability of the teacher is always denty to turn out a super-

the immortal Dick Turpin., Bomo,there. But its most famous build- considered before registration of abundance of “hair baked?"

indead, would add that the Blacking was, the Cock Tan. The sight a-school is granted...

Horae inn. of Broadway was named was of course, that of the cock after the hero's Black Boss. They which crowed to St. Peter, the are fabulists. The inn and thenatron of Westminster.. It was sign were there before Mr. Turpin, there when the Abbey-or mrte But allowing Broadway all its his thereof were built, and within its toric renown, we must give Tothill walls the artificers were maid. So street the greater glory, Why save tradition, and it anyone should the name sound comic to our denhts, there is the undeniable degenerate ears? It me venerdern fact that in one of its benme able dignity. In Wycliffe's Bible wers found thirty-one rose nobles Zion 3 tot hill." There are and fourteen merke. None of Tothills all over England for the the cota, infortunately, was ne name only meus (csonypatos hills old as the dave when Henry IIL and it was often given to the eas erecting the carliest part of which local curele the Akiser, kur many of them were In the marsh leads of older.

ing of the nave The very smallest city and the roste

students, so the greatest danger There is no doubt that in the in the Government. not being absence of a sufficient number of practically the sole dispenser of Government schools, both for day is running of a certain proportion education lles' in the grave risk it and night tuition, a number of of day and night scholars In schools are established that are private schools developing into first and foremost out-and-out risk is too great for any cheese- Arebrands and Communists. That commercial ventures. All that paring policy of any British matters is not the quality of the Government in respect of educa education imparted but the ton. Let the Government here amount drawn in month by month think it over!

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