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PRESS TUESDAY, APRIL 30TH, 1916.

CALLING THINGS BY THEIR RIGHT NAMES.

[BY DOROTHY DIY.

Did you ever think what a reformation would be worked in the world if we only called a spade a spåde instead of referring to it in vague terme as an agricultural implement?

And especially would there be a great und permanent

improvemetit, wrought in our own characters if we only had the Lourage to tag our little weaknesses with their proper appellations instead of camouflaging them under a fancy and romantic sounding brand..

HEROES OF THE PEN

TRIBUTE TO WAR. CORRESPONDENTS.

A high tribute to the self-devotion of the war correspondents was paid by Colonel Lord Barnham while occupying the president's clutir at the annus) meeting of the Newspaper Press Fund.

in moving the adoption of the report

and accounts Lord Burnham, after

dealing with financial questions, said that they had to record that twenty-two members of the fund had been killed in action or had died of wounds. They Tako nerves, for instance The crimes would wish to pay their tribute of against the peace and happiness of other honour to these and other heroes of the people that have been committed in the Press who had sucrified themselves in name of nerves make countless thousands the great cause which animated the whole. mourn. Whenever you see a spoiled, illation. There was no profession that had mannered, uncontrolled child whe howls, proved itself better in the war then kicks, bites and screams if it is crossed theirs. They had pickled up the best of and who is a little pest to have about, its their young men All of them bad mother says that poor dear little carned credit und honour in the branchica Johnnie is so nervous that he can't keep of the service to which they belonged, still, and inust have whatever he wants." and those who had gone" West” und Whenever you see a woman who is answered the last call had especially irritable as a sorcheaded bear, and wib var undying fame. He knew he might lashes out at everybody around her with - ofler, in the names of all present stucere a bitter tongue, and who flies into terrible. sympathy to the families of these men in rages if anyone dares to differ with ber their bereavement, and assure them that or her tyrannical will is thwarted in any the members of the fund would take son, way and whose husband and children go faction. permanently, to enshrine their in fear and trembling lest they provoke names and memories, so that they might one of her muniae outbursts, you will find | be held up to the admiration of those that she talks loud and long about her poor nerves and assumes the air, of suffering martyr,

who came after is

is But it is not only to the dead, not only to the combatants," Lord Burnhamı continued, that I wish to pay a tribute of our praise. I wish to call attention also to the heroism of those who are

If such people only faced the music and called their nerves by the right name temper--there would be some chance for then to reform themselves. A woman codules her nerves and thinke the interghting in this war with the pen, with esting and aristocratic, but she'd be just as great artillery and self.icvotion ashamed to admit that she had the temper as if they were in the combatant ranks. of a shrew. Temper ruins far more homes have seen with my own eyes the work

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never get it under control until we quit front, and I cannot conceive of a better calling it perves estandard of conduct or a higher realiza Then there's sensitiveness. Whenever tion of the ideals which we all cherish you meet a woman who is about as cons than has been shown by these members of fortable to get along with as a prickly our craft: They work under conditions bear, a woman who is always resigning of strain and stress which have to be scen from clubs and getting into quarrels when to be fully understood. There are u she's on committees, a woman who is great many of these around me who, always suspecting her husband of flirtas like myself have paid. Aving visits to tions with any woman to when he is the battlefields, and they know that when decently polite a woman whom you don't wo go there we are treated with every dare not to ask to every dinner and lunch you give no matter how ill she hits in courtesy, and we pass our time there in comparative comfort and safety; but wo with your other guests; a woman whom are also enabled to appreciate how her employers have to handle with kid dincult, as well as dangerous, in the gives if she is working woman, 30 duty to which the war correspondents will find out that she always speaks of are called day by day and hour by hour. herself as being so sensitive."

These men have not only to share many of the perils of the soldiers who are fghting in fact, all the perils exccpt actually going over the parapet-hut they have to come back, necessarily ex hausted by nervous tension owing to what they have gone through, and do their her little miserable dignity and have set in order that those who read best adequately to describe what they ra bigger than any cause

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to recognize it for the self-conceit it is and although they may not have to go through take, drastic measures to reduce the sire all the routine of military discipline, of your head:

Then there's temperament. Whenever you meet people who are 37 different varieties of plain fool they invariably tell you that they are temperamental When ever you find a man who lets his poor old mother or wife take in boarders to support him, he would tell you that he is temperamental and that he has never been able to bring himself to take any part in

the course, vulgar struggle for existence. When yo meet . man who breaks a good wife heart and leaves his little children to starve and go ragged and cold while he philanders around with other women and spends his money on bottles and birds for them, he will tell you that it is impossible for a man who is temperamental as he is to love just me woman or be tied down by dome.he

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ture, as you know Bubject to milltary authority, and their work is not done when they have completed their messages

their word picture as the phrase goes They have often to contend on small points with those who are set in authority over them and night after night their labours are continued long after many of the combatant soldiers have been enabled to seek their rest..

There I say we owe a great debt of admiration as well as gratitude to the war correspondents, who have not only proved themselves worthy successors of those who, in their time, since the early part of last century, have chronicled the evesits and facts of the various warg tu which we have been engaged, bút 1 thoroughly believe, have surpassed them When you meet a woman who in endurance whilst equalling them in No war correspondents performance. slovenly, sloppy and untidy, and who have even been tried as our war corre clothes appear to have been pitchforked spondents have been in this war; and on to her, you don't have to be told that that they have come through with so fine she is temperamental. All temperamental

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because feel a strongly that whilst the self by telling you that all household poblie have had the advantage of read- affairs, and even husband and children,ng the most vivid pictures that could are repugnant to one of her temperament possibly be painted of the horrors, and When you meet a woman who has also of the glories, of these ceaseless bat affinities and who whates her life in dream-tles, not enough has been said of the ing of what a great actress or poet or

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Now ainety-nine times out of a hundred and there's luck. Find a manzor temperament selfishness and triflinguoss, tell you that they are unlucky. Find

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