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A PLEA FOR MATRIMONIAL COMMITTEES IN EVERY TOWN

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[BY HERTA BUÇKİ

THE BUNDLE MAN.

MARRIED NAVAL OFFICERS

wrote an article an Shortage of Husbands. In reply at received from all ranks of unmarried fofrer

in the

INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IN

ENGLAND

HINTS FROM AMERICA

The spread of Buenza a quebecked

"You don't mean to tell me you're a bandle man,' old bird Thank heaven · I'm not anyway, it isn't hudī good (says the Doily Express of Detober väll}

While doctors and nurses are ester worked enough."*

Suck is the remark frequently passed Į beyond description and supplies of medi The by one paval officer to another; bundle cines are for the tire wing exhausted. being naval slang for married people are turning attention is possible Great thought the diffenties are

protective agencies. en a number of letters; all interesting, that confront the Indie

Numbers of pooțile ave wearing respira sume pathetic

Navs many prefer to far them rather tors in the hoge of nvouding inhalation than remain single.

of the influenza haerijas as only n step from the commun reginator to the? gasmask Protection of the dat kind was adopted lý do tinted States Fixeru men for tinition workers during thin epidemic in mid summer used in at lest military hospital in Great Britain some werking

The keynote of nearly all we this

I ask for nothing better than to come.

in

and

Was th

Au unhappy result of the spademine ja the diffent of seeuring sufficient coffins and the execution af order for interne The additional demands on murtakers. orear when the already small staffs tre depleted by illorss, and their stuburass

There is an old saying that a naval home after the way and to gestie down | officer should be married 10 the ser with some nice girl The difficulty is. vice only, and this would appear to how to pry to know one 7

the view taken by the powers that be One correspubent wrote from South on the subject. Not only is no separa Africa; he was lonely nad longing for tion allowance granted, but no married nt: English Efe He described himself quarters or any other facilities are pro sealy, quin, bookish, with relations invaded for dre wives. This being the case, London who lived quietly and saw very Mrs, N 0. who wishes to see as much of

be con few young people Bo that on his return her husband as possibly must 10 Great Britain his chance of meeting tinually taking lodgings

different

girt with a

[ matrimony" Darts often arriving in An utterly would slender indeed You

strange place, only to find that her hus There must be women to whom he might, band's ship has just left. This constantments are increased by the refuad of meni seem an ideal mate.

travelling is a heavy drain on the small bers of the Funeral Workers Union to

attend any funeral after A soldier, an Old Regular (of pas

Baturdays. twenty four) wrote from Mesopotamia

An occasional free pass or reduced His opinion was that the best thing

Seventy six mettlers of the Lantion Fire un of his age could do way to marry railway fare would confer a very real

Hrigude are incapacitated by influenc boon upon the impecunious young wife. the nicest girl he could find. But

Additional members of the Volunteer At the outbreak of war his regiment Those who know the many expenses to was in India. At the time of writing be which a naval officer is put must surely Battalions have been told off to assist the had not seen "Blighty" for four long admit that the pay is totally inadequate. | brigade The number of members of the years.

Wow all the girls he had known Many people are under the impression a lad were grown up and married that the gold on his uniform is to be Metropolitan Police Force adwent He had no sisters who could introduce found in abundance in his pockets, but duty is 1180, and at the same time, there their girl friends, Who girl would this unfortunately is seldom the case. there be to welcome him home 7 Again, there inest socurwhere he thus very

THE ENTABLISHMENTS.

sweetheart for him if he and she could The seafaring bundle wan is called only know of each other and could only | upon to meet in time!

His light is that of many young men - They want their home coming to mean marriage for them a girl and a home of their own. But they have been for so longont of the way of getting to know the right kind of girl.

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two establishments, une afloat and one ashore. On board he bas mes bills to pay, and also hie share in any entertaining which the ship may du This is no small item. Then again, his servant aboard has to be paid, just the same as his wife's ashore. It would sur prise the average farmer or shopkeeper For the girl these toys are looking for were be to see the humble lodgings in is not the sort whom they could get to which the wives of naval officers usually in the street. They want the live, yes they can afford nothing better

have substantial proper introduction, that convention unless they

private which is, after all, founded on something means. essential. They want to see her among The State eries out for more children; ber folk. They want everything on a then let her be consistent. Arm and honourable footing.

Here is the problem.

know

Few lieuten- ants who are solely dependent on their

On the one hand are these decent Indspy of 19. per day dare indulge in the On the other handxury of a wife, their only rise for looking for wives

eight years being eighteen pence a day. are the girls they want rosy, bonnie Many would-be bundle mon apply for the command of a destroyer, as this means domesticated English girls; potential sweethearts, wires, others of the best.

an extra be, 3d. a day for them, a small In between there is this tiresome bar fortuns to those of us who must needs: rier; these young people don't seem to get reckon in shillings and not pounds. the chance of meeting,

Dumb and helpless, they see each other Outsiders w oddly indifferent pasa about this; they make few efforts to in troduce those who could become lovers. Girls are left on the shelf of home or office. Boys go back lonely to bachelor

digs or worse. A tragedy! What's to be done about it? That question rang through all those letters that journeyed back to London from all parts of the Empire. The buys may soon. Le following them. Those journeys ought to cad in lovers' meetings.

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are gaps in the ranke of the specta! com stables.

The Surgeon-Generut of the United States Army has issued the following set of rules, for the avoidance of infuruan Avoid deedless crowding influenza

crowd disease

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mother your rough and sheets others do not want the germs which von would throw away.

here, not your mouth, wax Harde to breathe through get the habit Hemember the three C's a clear mouth.

clean skia, and clean clothes Try to keep cool when you walk and warm

when you ride and sleep.

always at home windows Open the

night: at the office when practicable Food will win the war if you give it a chance help by choosing and chewing your food well.

Your

Your fate tony he in your owr bands

wash your hands before eating

af

Do not let the waste produels of diges

tion accumulate drink a glass or of water on getting up.

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Do not use a napkin, towel, spoon, fork, glass or cup which has loca used by another person and not washed. Avoid tight clothes, tight shoes, tight. gloves soek in make nature your ally not your prisoner. When the air is pure breathe all of it you

ean breathe deeply

It is strange that a country which is dependent, not only for its immunity from invasion, but for the very bread it eats, on the efforts of it sailors, ahould not do more for its naval officers to en- race which courage them to perpetuate contains the very best elements in thei country. As matters stand at present, LOWER-DECR the naval officer who is bold enough to take unto himself a wife is penalised.

Workers ashore would long ago have gone on strike if treated with so little consideration, but such a course is not

Why should there not be instituted in open fur the naval mun.

The call of love, however, beats as every parish a Committee of Matrimony strongly in his heart as in that of his for the benefit of friendless bachelors and brother shore. It is unfair to expect

"matchmaking

to be hoped that the country may the

COMMISSIONS.

ADMIRALTY CONCESSIONS MEET WITH APPROVAL

The concessions granted by the Adni raity

to the warrant officers. though long in coming, have been received with

of girls who have no men friends? Why him to remain single, and one day it is general satisfaction, which wifi in not raise that despised to ad honorable organisation, put whole thing on a creditable basis?

Why shouldn't this Committee make itself responsible for introductions to suitable hones? Why shouldn't it keep careful register of the names of men and maids, take up references, see that none THE "LEINSTER" DISASTER number of lieutenancies from 4 to 5 per but the right sort of young man meets of girl! Why not the most desirable kind

concerts, STRANGE SIGN OVER THE SCENE. institute

social gatherings, dances? In aliort,

why

not provide every

A remarkable statement is made by facility for meetings on the square"?

These Committees might be composed of Canon. Pim, Rector of Christ Church, three kinds of experts in human beings: Kingstown, in the Irish Times.

On Saturday afternoon inat (ho saya) 1. A padre who had sven service at the there was a bank of cloud on the horizon, front. He ought to know whether a boy was "white."

re- creased if the revised scale of pay (now cognise this and give him the means to before Admiral Hyde-Parker's Commit bundle" very much easier to tee) comes up to expectation.

The most appreciated point in the make the bear than is at present the case.

award in the reduction of the period Borred for **Chief" from 16 to 10 years. While pleased with the increase in the

2. A doctor. From the joint of view of future generations he is some judge of u suitable match,

ence

cent. the warrant officers do not take kindly to the precentage idea, because it creates the anomaly that the fewer the men in one particular branch the quicker the promotion.

The fact that merit is at last to play its part in promotion meets with great ap "Smart young warrant officers proval. now have the chance of qualifying for

half along their career. The warrant

and against a clear sky above it there lieutenant whers B view the elev a great white oross of absolutely perfect appeared for some moments the form of shape.

It was seen by at least four members of my own household, not all of them together or from the same place, as well 45 by other people.

tion of commanders from their ranks as

big advance. The

The point, how

howeve very big

with objection.

tion. Thy want to know meet with

I from warrant lientenants promot 3. A woman who had herself been hap-

why lien pily married, preferably more than one

rank have to be radically examined, when this dors not apply to other officers; and thed commissioner Her eye would be keener than any man's

One of

of the witnesses described it to the other is inspotting" the girl most likely to

em to have been do not me that it had seemed to him first as if

warrant officers

all. It is

that the urged make & success of marriage; her experi

and intuition combined should be there were a great cloud figure with out considered at able to help out her colleagues in any stretched arms which assumed the form latter, though only a few hundreds in number, have be largely instrumental of a cross, and as the sharpness of its nur difficulty.

On the still undeciled question of Surely committees of these three, work-outlines passed it seemed to be full of in building up the wartime navy. ing together and for love of a cause, the faces of men and women. It was just.

are the only men in the senior service who aster (to the Leinster) had happened. ought to go far towards solving this probas it were, over the place where the dis pas, the warrant officers urge that they Their lem of the sweethearts who never meet!

Canon Pim adds: One presumes to are still drawing pre-war rates. The Empire wants new homes built in

offer no explanation, but it was eartainly wives, it is true, have been granted the the gaps made by the war. Those who there, and at the least it, was a symbol soparation allowance, but it in the separa help to bring them about will be lighting of surpassing comfort."

tion allowances of the lower-dock only. They asked that this should be abolished, not only on the side of romance, but of duty and common sense.

and that the officers' children's allowance of £2 per month for each child up to four should be substituted.

There is the problem. Who will ment it?

The phenomenon to which the Canon refers was seen by many residents on the Dubiin coast, and has been a subject of gonoral conversation in the city.

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