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The report of the Council of Foreign The Cologne Gazette will be wise not to ex-Bondholders for 1914 is more than usually tract too great a solace from the supposed interesting, because a number of the ignorance of its enemy. Lord Kitchener is a profound psychologist. And he is peculiarly Spanish American States have, as a con- The virtue of woonomy for which the well-fitted to deal with the Germans, because sequence of the war, been unable to pro- French-woman is so renowned has horne he has devoted many years of his life to the vide for the remittance to London of good fruit since the war, for although study of savage races. He knows how to the funds allocated to the service of their misery and want are necessarily felt all gauge with perfect accumey the strength and external debte. Where the revent record through the country from stagnation in

weakness of those peoples which Civilisation, business, they are immeasurably lessened in the true sense, bas never touched with of a State has been good, and it has by the fact that almost all French women bor ennobling finger. He who has controlled shown an honourable desire to maintain have some savings or resources upon the dervishes will have no difficulty in divin its credit, the Council, rather than class which_to_draw. Moreover, directly the ing the purpose of the Kaiser and his Huns, it as a defaulter, has consented to a little war broke out the practical French

presently find to their delay, either by postponing the dus as the Germans will ruin and discomfiture.

interest payments or by a temporary || woman at onod begin to prepare for

It does not well become Germany to boast suspension of the sinking funds. evöntualitics, Bud with tho decision

of psychology. She has shown herself in the Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicaragua, which marks most of her actions she roduced her daily expenditure with a

last six months profoundly ignorant of Venezuela are cases in point; but the human character. Had she been able to see position of Venezuela is not made any firm hand. The French-woman of gentic the other peoples of Europe with a clear and better by the contention that it is not breeding can live simply, and inexpen-honest eye, she would bave kept her sword justified, in view of a falling revenue, sivoly in a very graceful way, and, the within its scabbard. She had docketed them in paying a premium on exchange, noti Inst sacrifices she makes are the dainty all with opprobrious opithets-degenerate withstanding that by the arrangement of things about her person. The bourgeoise France, decadent England, barbarous Russia 1005 it is under the obligation to remit of the small shopkcoping class practices Economy with less grace but equal and put them away in muitable pigeon for the Debt service in sterling. Costu

holes. And not only was her judgment of | Rica, Colombia, Salvador, fervour, and the woman of the people other people's character hopelessly erroneous; Guatemala stand out in egretable relief frankly makes no attempt to be any nothing happened in accord with her pro as having kept up their payments, in thing-but-well-fed-and tidy. All classes found researches. There was revolution spite of trade disturbance-and-exchange Trave & gift for holding on to the essen neither in Russia nor in India. Ireland for difficulties; and Costa Rica's special tials of life when their matorial existence the moment suspended her political contro efforts to keep faith with her bondholders is at stake, amal it is always the super versy. France, in spite of her Government, are cordially recognized in the report. fluous which is sacrificed brst, Such a rose to the summit of a great opportunity. Ecuador's failure to full her obligations fine sense of proportion is one of the And if the Cologne Gazetic were gifted with for the seven months before the war s nation's strongest points, and it is one prudence or a sense of humour, it would well as since seems to disentitle her to the dreamers of the north may well abolish the word "paychology from its be kept out of the defaulters hat, and ponder upon.

Vocabulary and recognise that Germany the cool dishonesty of Honduras in must rely solely upon blood and iron, and appropriating railway receipts hypothe must leave political wisdom to the "degonecated to the bondholders only confirms the rate” races who surround her.

bad impression created by her many Arthur, 24th April-Shanghai 2let years of systematic default. Special

April, General-Chinese reference is made to Brazil and the Pro- LAERTES, British str., 1,380, : Jenkins, vince of Buenos Aires, both of which have. 25th April-Kohsichang 18th April, been sorgusly affected by economic con

Rice-Chinese. ditions and have had to resort to interest-LANGCHOW, British str.,-1,220. Benson, funding arrangements. They get the 25th April-Shanghai 2nd April,

enefit of the Council's belief that their

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April-Sandakan 14th April, Gen- The report refors in caustic terms, to

eral-Jardine, Matheson & Co. the nine defaulting States of the Ameri- MONTEAGLE, British str., 3,953, F. L. can Union which have mado no attempt

Davison, 22nd April -- Vancouver, " on their honour, -

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ENGLAND'S GREATER VARIETY.

As we climb the social ladder in France we find very much the same rules of life governing all classes, especially whore memey is concerned. The working womaa and the aristocrat show the same simple Yet no failure in foreright seems to daunt common-sense in dealing with the difficulour enemies. They are as quick to vaunt tics of a domestic or economic problem, their own psychology as to deny it to us. and both are equally capable of making And nothing pleases them better than to immense saorifices for those belonging to sketch after the runner of Theophrastus them The working woman economizes neat little characters of their opponents. We Ipat on food, because she realizes that hear without shame or embarrassment that good food gives her strength to work; the we are the victims of laziness and of u dull aristocrat, on the other hand, retranches lothargy. Our spirit, it seems, locks the first on her own-table, unless she is dis-Teuton buoyancy and freedom. We accept pensing hospitality. Both

women the reproof in placid contentment. In the economise in droes and household linen last six months we have had a clear demon- by that meticulous care of the wardrobe stration, and the Germans have had it too, ind the linen chost which marks most that we are neither lethargic nor lazy. The French households.

courage And energy which have driven us forth to seek our fortunes in every corner of the globe have not deserted us in this hour of our need, and we receive Germany's re- | proof with the cheerfulness which comes of a secure knowledge that the reproof is unmerited.......

NOT A THREAD WASTED.

They darn and patch and turn and re-make until not a thread is washed. They never indulge in superfluous orna ment, and although a French workman's kitchen may look less comfortable that

Again wo are told by our solemn mentor in Englishman's, the essentials to woll- that we are miserably poor in "intellectual being are always to be found there possessions," and again we may smile in- a good meal, a good bed, and tidy cloth dulgently at the professors of Germany. The ing, with warmth enough to sit and smoke home of Shakespeare and Milton, of Newton in comfort. The dining table will proband Darwin, to name but those, shall see no ably be cheek by jowl with the bed, but shadow cast across its brilliance by the dull both will be excellent of their kind; the bulk of Germany. As little need we resent table will show no tablecloth, but just the change of bad education. It is true that an oil-cloth cover; but no matter what we are not drilled into a dim and will-less the meal, servietter will be provided, and, uniformity like the sons of Prussia. We do most important of all, the cooking will not place the training of our scholars in the be of the first urder, for the woman who hands of politicians, nor do we admit State cannot cook in Frames is as rare sa the fed professors within the walls of our woman who cannot sew.

universities. But our system, or our lack of it, makes for variety, and we are not so il educated that we would accept the fulse, reposterous generalisations of Herr Houston Chamberlain as real history, even on the autocratic word of un Emperor.

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swift institutions of character, though every guess they hazard be false. The truth is that they have not psychology, but merely the apparatus of psychology Text-books are theirs in lavish abundance, and technical terms. They delight in controversy and in the shaur fights of professorial warfore. But they never get beyond the stage of the text book. When they attempt to apply what they have learned, they display at once the

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My Own (£100 for each of the four). £4007 woman who sits at the receipt of custom,

John H. Hall, ditto shows the same characteristics as the

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son, 21st April-Sydney 23rd March. Like the virtuous woman of old `cha-}

The Germans, however, see the world as

Miss Blanche A. Holland worketh willingly with her hands, she they would wish it to be, They will still

Gonorel.--Butterfield & Swire. Shipowner" girdath her loins with strength, and so force facts to run to the heel of their pelan-Alfred Herbert look well to the ways of her house-try, They will still proclaim aloud their Heory Wills "An Old Salt" hold," She sacrifices nothing to outside show, and is content to do without a Balon so long as tho can have a cor- rect suite of forniture-in her bed room. Her children are well fed, wall clothed, well educated, and well started in business, Bhe leaves nothing to

In addition to this the Earl of Dysart has chance, and her charity begins at home,

with the fund by a contribution of not ex. kindly expressed a desire to be associated although it does but always end there,

ending £10, to be divided into four equal as the war is proving every day. wider boundaries and more luxury than have no literary criticism, but only its apsupported by myself and friends, become

The upper middle class haa, perhaps,

made by Mr. Hoult, any other class in France. Its clements literature; they will collate manuscripts payable and the £100 which Meanrs. Munn

They will collest you facts about are more mixed and consequently i principles are less easily defined.

with infinito patience they will count you and Cook offer in their letter which you pub: parvenus jostle those families which have verbs and nouns, and will tell you, for in- lished on the 19th inst. I have also received hcon "respectable

stance, how many times this woul or that is another good patriot's cheque for El (Mr. for generations, the used in the Elizabethan dramatists. But ne Justin W. Boys) These and any further vulgarly rich and the unostentatiously well-to-do inhabit much the same kind of sooner do they approach a work of literature contributions I receive will enable us to in- mansions; but even here gambling, vor

han they kill it outright. Their dead had crease the amount of the prizes. turosonic spirits among the women are

lies heavily upon it. A poem, when they less general than those which are ruled have done with it, ceases to be a living work by common-sense and economy. Tradcue of art, nd becomes a lifeless specimen of tompers most of their actions and, only grams with a pin driven tightly through in thoughts and theories are they utterly its back. without restraint, They express, superficially, more of the passing moods of the age than any other class in France, but even they are only moved on surface, and deep down in their nature is that analterable inexpressible current which moves them all, individual of life which is la race Francaise, the ly and en masse, to self-sacrifies for patric and la famille, and which enables them, as a race and as personalities, to survive revolutions, wars, and the evils of peace, with a strength and a courage nad a mental spring such as no other nation in the world can surpass.-

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NOTHING OMITTED EXCEPT TRUTH,

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All moneys received have been, and will be, paid fate the Capital and Counties Bank, Threadneedle-street, London, to a special account entitled "Submarine Sinking Fand Prizes Account," and each contributor shall. be informed so soon as the first claim is made So it is that the Germans should be con--which we all trust will be soon. tent to discuss psychology in its proper

Yours faithfully, jargon, and leave the characters of living

HENKY KIMBER. Lansdowne Lodge, West Hill, Putney, men and women for others to discriminate. The discipline which their schools and univer

March 23. the scholars cannot think for themselves. The sitics pose upon them drive them into hide-bound habits of peduntry. The German word is given that the English are lazy and lethargic and the German world believes it in unquestioning humility. Thus we under- stand Germany's astounding, credulity. She eagerly accepts the current falsehoods of hope.

The Kaiser's favourite poet, Ganghofer, As a commentary oa the German

gravely announced that on March 3

starving out Germany, of them their wonderful German journal

the weekly Amsterdammer..

reminds lances, swords, and guns, and declared they readers of the speech delivered by the would gladly use these victorions weapons German Chancellor, von Caprivi, ut against the English. That is a falsehood cut sitting of the Reichstag on March 4, to the real Gerinan pattern..

It is precise in 1892.In this speech yon Caprivi poimed its absurdity. Not even the date is omitted. out that, in his opinion, the cutting off Nothing is left out except the truth, and no of the encary's trade in a naval war doubt the rumour has brought comfort to would always continue to be na indis countless Ceramu homes. The Germans, in pensible policy. deed, will go on asserting, believing, and misunderstanding until the end of the war. And we can find no satisfaction in the per verse psychology. For surely nature has never created a demon more terrible than an over-disciplined, credulous, and maniacal pedant-From "Letters of An Englishman" in the Daily Mail.

has

THE NEXT OLYMPIC GAMES by six Afridis went over to the Germans, liguation of the English policy, of

PROPOSAL THAT BÉLGIUM SHOULD SUPPLANT BERLIN...

PARIS, March 9th

The National Committee of Sports, which is the directing body of all French sport), unanimously decided at a special meeting to-day not to take part in be 1916 Olympic Games, believing that sen games should not be held that year. The Committee passed the following resolu tion:

We believe that when the time comes to discuss the date and place of the next Olympic Games the International Board would honour itself in offering on ble Belgium, and particularly to the city of Antwerp, the organization of the next

Olympiad

"HIGH-HANDED METHODS.".

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The following really dilicious ketter appears in the Times:

Here is a letter from a British prisoner advantage, upon the high-handed usthads. SIR, Aistle light might be shed, with in Germany. Its authenticity is not

of the Passports Department at the Foreign

Yet Manu, Japanese str., 2,708, P. Itani, 14th April-Wakamaten 8th April, Coll-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. Zavino, American str., 1,408, N. 5. Ventorini, 22nd April-Saigon 18th April, Rice, Logs, and Merchandise. -Order.

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having a fine time here, and they do us

pose I described my face as "inteligent."

In case Belgium would not is in a well. Every night we have a six courec instead of finding this characterisation on- tion to organize the games, the dinner, with champagne, long Coronas tered, I have received a passport on which

Committee suggests that the and C6 brandy (free). Our sheets (lina) given to the oldest of all neutral are changed every night, the bathrooms some official, utterly unknown to me, has witzerland, who certainly would are the last word in luxury, we are allow taken it upon himself to call my face "oval" o organise this great pacifced to do what we like, and the Germans

Yours very truly,

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