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MATTERS TO BE DEPLORED.

[By E. Arnot Robertson.]

state of affairs close at hand.

ship at the age when they would not even be considered fit to in- vest fifty pounds for themselves, if they had it!.

AT LLOYD'S.

CLOSING SCENE ON MOVING DAY.

HYMNS TO BE SET TO FOLK TUNES.

CHURCHMEN'S AIM,

To find out the type of hymn and style of melody best calculated to develop the spiritual aide of church the Churchmen's Choral

So much attention has been focused on the distressing ques- tion of child marriages in the East that surely a little might| While the City presented the work, well be spared for the same sub-peaceful and deserted appearance Union, of 1A, The Cloisters, Inner Ject at home; but a crying shame that is common to every Good, Temple, have arranged to hold a far afield is always more appeal- Friday, there were busy scenes in conference at Ostend in Whitsun ing to the sympathetic British progress at Lloyd's old premises week, from May 26 till June 2. mind than a merely ridiculous at the Royal Exchange, and in Discussing the project with á their palatial new building newspaper representative the dir- Certainly, we do not marry our in Leadenhall-street. The moving ector of the union, Mr. Edgar girls when they are actually child-of this vast establishment entail Pettman, formerly organist of St. ren, but sociologists tell us that ed unremitting labour, day and James's, Piccadilly, said, "It is all the development of a twelve- night, throughout the holidays. Ronsense to think motoring and years-old Eastern-bred girl, living A representative of "The golf are keeping our people away in a tropical climate, is equivalent Daily Telegraph" who visited from church. Give them a service to that of a girl of sixteen or the vacated premises found a at which they seventeen in the West. And at wonderful scene of desolation in congregations will come back.

can sing and the eighteen or nineteen, with the the historic "Room."

The floor 'Most of full approval of their parents, was almoat ankle-deep in the anista," he added, "have left the the professional org- numbers of English girls make litter of papers, and on each of churches and gone to the cinemas, the choice which is supposed to the underwriters' and brokers until in London there are only decide the whole course of their deska were piled up parcels of labout thirty left. lives, encouraged by public opin-books, ledgers, and documents of for instance, there is only one. In Hampstead, ion, which sentimentalises over a all sorts, carefully tied in bundles The result is the congregations are young bride.

and awaiting removal.. The

In the hands of men who do not Not only are these nice young famous bell that was salved from knew the needs of the church, things not legally of age; they are the Lutine, which is only rung while there is coming into existence not even considered of an age when an over-due vessel enters another class of man even when their opinion on any mat-port, or on some other special dangerous, and that is the ter of importance would be occasion, was missing from its curate. Half the music is en- thought worth listening to for a ornamental iron framing, pre- moment. And yet they are ex-paratory to its entering on a freshtirely beside the mark, and when pected to discern among the jolly lease of usefulness over the im that, what is there to keep people you get poor sermona on top of youths who dance with them and posing rostrum in the centre of ¡in church? There never Was take them about in cars or on the the new "Room." The old clock! backs of moter bicycles, the ones had also disappeared.

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Such was the situation that, he of the more youthful members. Society, which aids and abets Streamers of coloured paper were explained, the union was ont to their absurdly immature decisions, flying about, toy trumpets and remedy by community hymn sing- with wedding presents and tears rattles made a deafening noise, ing on artistic lines, and the musi- at the ceremony, now holds up its and there were frequent outbursts cal committee of the union had hands in horror at the number of of cheering. The noise grew until, drawn up for submission such marriages which come to at four o'clock, the chairman, Mr. conferences, which would be held grief every year.

P. G. Mackinnon, made his way to in the Kursaal and the two halls the criers rostrum; a path had of the Hotel de Ville, a number to be cleared for him and the of hymns set to folk tures for use

in churches. During the last hundred years members of the committee by a

They were a Church body, but they invited all who or so the average marriage age bodyguard of attendants. As for girls has advanced a good the chairman stood, waiting to and dances to attend the

were interested in church music. deal, but not in proportion to the speak, he was greeted with an

con-1 drastic changes in women's out-outburst of cheering which lasted ference, which was the first of its look and position. In the days until the Lutine bell had been kind ever held. The speakers when English girls of sixteen rung thrice, but when, he spoke would include the Rev. F. J. were pledged in marriage by not a sound disturbed what was Hawkings, of St. Paul's Cathedral; their fathers without being con- undoubtedly a solemn occasion: Dr. J. E. Borland, late musical sulted at all, women were entirely With evident feeling Mr. Mackin-adviser to the London County household chattels They were non ssid:-

Council; Mr. Harvey Grace, editor brought up to hope for the best

of the "Musical Times;" Mr. G. T.] Gentlemen-This occasion re- Thalben-Ball, organist in the matter of their husbands' quires that I should say a few Temple Church; and Dr. Porritt, of the occasional sobriety and fidelity, words to you. When business of Liverpool University, but not to expect too much; and closes this afternoon we finally

Votes, said Mr. Pettman, would

in any case among the leisured

classes they would not have been quit a building which has been be taken upon the merits of a large the home of Lloyd's for nearly number of folk tunes for inclusion allowed to get to know the man 100 years. Few of us can make in a book which it was proposed well before marriage, however old they were, so that it made no dif- such a change without some feel- to publish. ference to the choice how young are specially acute for those of delegates, numbering between 1,400 ings of regret, but these feelings On Whit Monday afternoon the they were pledged.

us who, like myself, have spent and 1,500, would sing in the open Moreover, once married, there by far the greater part of their at Bruges, while in the evening a was no escape for them; a fact lives within these walls, and have special choir of 300 mixed voices which made, if not for content-sat in the sents that were ocel from England, conducted by Sir ment, at least for endurance. pied by former generations. We Henry Coward, would sing Stan- Nowadays, with divorce always a have, of course, had our troubles ford's "Revenge," accompanied by possibility, marriage must be far and our grave anxieties. I believe the Kursaal

orchestra. It Was

more satisfactory than it used to it is not these that we shall re- hoped that a well-known British be in order to endure at all-member when we think of the old statesman would be present on which emphasises the importance Lloyd's, but the many delightful that occasion:

of the choice.

associations of relationship, of

Neither in England nor India friendship, of business, that have

| would legal interference be advis-made so pleasant the years we.

able: there are some girls of have spent in these familiar sur- THE "ORPHAN” QUOTATION. eighteen, in England who are ad-roundings. We leave with some; mirably fitted to make the most sadness the scene of so much The controversy over the quota- important decision of their lives, good in our personal lives, of so tion "I expect to pass through this though the majority are not; and, much growth and progress for the world but once etc.," seems well on the other hand, there are plen-Corporation of Lloyd's.

started. Like others, the present ty of young women of twenty-two The end of Mr. Mackinnon's writer was under the impression and twenty-three who are still too speech was the signal for a fresh that Marcus Aurelius was the

outburst of cheering.

Someone author. But he does not presume Roughly, I should say that, for started "Auld Lang Syne," and to be positive. How many the majority, round about twenty-the crowd joined in with voices familiar quotations there are how- four is the age when a girl is like-from which tears were not far dis-ever, about which we are all at sea. ly to have acquired enough ex- tant, perience, not so much of the world

immature.

as of herself, to know her own mind, if she is ever going to do so. It is only public opinion that can be of any use in this question.

HOT WEATHER PERILS AND THE BABY.

Several years ago, there was quite a violent dispute in à Shanghai paper as to how this saying should end: "There but for the grace of God, goes-". Who will supply the missing name? Frankly, we have forgotten. Again, does any-

one know who wrote the Te Deum? Unfortunately, public opinion is,

Nine persons out of ten, if asked so unstable. A little while ago

to place the quotation, "God tem- Mr. T. P. O'Connor, who should

pers the wind to the shorn lamb"- have known better, gavo out that,

will confidently but quite er- if he had the ruling of it, every

roneously reply the Bible. Then girl would be married at 18 and

there are what might be called every man at 21 because such

|"spoof" quotations and similar early marriage gave the young

The hot months of the year are inventions which have all the rank people responsibility and steadied the most dangerous to infants and of true history. Actrally, we be them,

The desire to "steady" the little children. Cholera infantum, lieve, there is no older authority young, the instinct of age to rob diarrhoea, dysentery, and attacks than Lewis Carroll for the myth cats grin; the youth of its short period of irre of fever come on so quickly that that Cheshire sponsible galety

the little one may be beyond aid Chester people themselves cannot pathetically. brief as it is in most cases-is a almost before the parents realise tell you of any, though their shops are full of brass effigies of the natural but deplorable thing. The he is BARNE hardness of life steadies young

No other medicine is of such beast. The very expressive word people soon enough without poli-aid to mothers during the hot sea-salumph," which ought to appear ticians' help. ONGson as Baby's Own Tablets, for in the Oxford Dictionary if it

Among the poorer labouring they quickly reduce fever, classes, where marriage is often

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