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THE CHILD.

A FOOL AND HIS MONEY.

[HY EDGAR WALLIĆE, ¡

But though this aspect of the Victorian century. may make us hesitate to accept

You are spending too much money. ita astonishing material. triumphs as the evidence of Progress, there are other

That is a general accirsation which will phases which more than adjust the bal- miss very few. It applies less to the rich A-händred years"ago Queen Victorinance, and trave us with's modest con- than to the middle classes and to the onse

cwice that we have not quite returned 1 time poor.

You are spending more than you ever to the place from which we started on that May morning of 1819.

I leave asidered and, more than you have ever the intellectual triumphs, as I leave aside anved you are spending, berrowed mones the material triumphs. Intellectuallis with the light-hearted prodigality of the, as we have just seen in Germany, may as easily be the instrument of diabolism spendthrift, who thinks his liabilit of gras. It is in the growth of a sociál j'ended when he puts his name at the font conscience that the Victorians achieved of an 1,0.1.

I don't know where the mongg comes, their permanent victory, and in that sense Ruskin was a more representative figure the

was born at Kensington Paluer... The era' to which her name is given and in which she played so considerable a part is one [of the completest chapters in human annals. The Victorian century may be

said to have begun with the fall of Napoleon and to have ended with the tall of the Kaiser. Between those two events the fabric of the world has been reshaped more profoundly, perhaps than in any thousand years that had gone before."

It is true that if by the aid of Mr. Wells Time Machine, we could roll back the tide of years and open our eyes upon

not

The

B: no, not even a nchinaa. act and as the Graderinds and

from." said a learing drapér. People,

that they want to spend money.".

And that is just what is happening verywhere.

People are buying for the sake of buy-

ing.

1. Aghting for UrEnd whose consciency was chose the thing they wanted, and if the l

centuries.

of the age than Macaulay. If they had

women mostly, stroll in here and when done nothing else than emancipate,

would have won Tehild trem slavery they the sun with the infans in Kensington crows more splendid than any of their you ask them what they want, they do It was a terrible thing not know--all they are certain about is forerunners. Palace, there would be certain broad rate born a poor child a century agoAt tures which would be familiar, should find Europe stained as now with unspeakable thing to be born a friendless in in- who. the blood of innumerable hosts of m

horror of thildhour had fallen in wars before the magnitude in the painful pages of the

dustrial Ens

then, as they are Plan- of which all previous wars seemed trivial.

monds

Town Babel mir, are a thing We should find the chief villain of the

They were the smutke the huge ran cold

t a German this time.

but a

not only by an unhuman com

In the old days women went to the shop Corsica, while the bus an Italian born in

still

Sowerberrys, but by people who were

and human, but thoughtless, with a specific necessity in mind. Ther Corsican patriots were their liberties against France:

find Are the jests of patriotism-we should

tradition villain

** tried price did not suit them they him like the chief ain of endas cool gumbed by the

The Victorians as akened. the conscience ing his heels in exile under the H

and the envid rame out of the dungeon somewhere else." They went shopping in" of this country.

of his

the same spirit as one it shond " at the far off

Jeturn to LI

dungeon uLWNE bel P. W up of rock in a

This is only one iliustration of that chemist's. You do not go to the chemist And Europe siting on the head of

grout current of human momentum which as the

.on the off-chance of lighting upon a medit Franes as it sitting.

though inor

and irrigated the arid desert of in eine that pleases you you carry your should find the people of this coun

dustrialism. Indis not make that desert prescription or need in mind and you joicing that their seven centuries of hisson as the ruse, but it implanted income away with your purchase. intermitte

with the French, whom | HARM

ards which, much as we may dislike! taught to regard

a profound disquiet, a note of Every as the authentie children of the devil. paternal philanthropy, paved the way to had ended in the final and complete over-

the conception of a commonwealth that throw of that rare of desperate criminals, should fpand itself ultimately not on should find reat statesmen-amons great riches, but on the wealth of noble them the ineffable Custlereagh-talkingeing in widest commonalty spread about a frague of Perpetual Peace, and we should find the Holy Alliance of Kings meeting at Verona te bring it about by the agreable expedient of suppressing herty everywhere

ship shrunk to the dimensiomem to the light of things. It will

han the hond of Germany to-day.

WILT

*PROGRESS."

century advanced

never

ORGY OF EXTRAVAGANCE.

**

Everybody agrees that there is lut of money about." and most people have only the vaguest iden where, it is coming from. The money is in the form of THE GOOD EUROPRAN

aslip which comes from the printer and And it was not only the drinestiv con-

An even which is printed on the understanding science that was awakened grander note was struck in the wider that it will be redeemed in gold some theatre of the world. It was the period time in the future. Every Bradbury" is of the god European.. the statesmen & promissory note which you will be call In fact, we should be tempted, as the

who related their narrow watriotistes to ed upon to redeem.. The big money" which result of our excursion into the past, to

the larger claims of humanity. Fox and everybody seems to possess is so much cash say that nothing has changed that in the

Burke had been bagly voices in Eigh in advance. You say you have the money interval the wheel of things has only made another revolution and bright the world enth Century England, but it was as and why shouldn't you have a good time those grent then in the while it lasts? That is all night if you back to the place

which froti it started the successor of

hun-councils of the world that Gladstone will are going to die when the last pourd is on that plant May morning a

representative English dred years ago when Victoria was born.ive as the most And for the glowny philosopher who huida statesman of the Victorian santur The expended, and if the State will very. that life moves in circles, but does not thunders of his voice on behalf of the kindly provide for your children, but progress-the humanity is onls like the oppressed all hands were such as had your good time is purchased at the cost donkey one used to see at Carisbronke only been heariously uphric the French future,

wice before in history, of your own discomfort and poverty in the Castle. forever treading' wheel that for when Fox

Cromwell wrote You can blame the war for this present ever went round without getting the Revolution and, when

To study the that immortal letter to the French Kingorgy of extravagante. Before the war stupid creature y

there were hundreds of thousands of parallel would quite satisfying and on behalf of the

families that could just snage on the convincing.

But aglaner below these external

wages that were brought in every week.. similarities may correct the depressin.

Their savings were represented by small conviction that it is all a jess, an eternal 4

insurances against death or accident. Eor roundabout of frantic absurdities leading

years these families, poor and middle class alike, had been used to spending nowhere. The wise man will not look for the correction in the ordinary evidences

every penny they earned, for the simple of progres

He will not like the pathetic author of an article read the And it is in this sphere that we come reason they could not live unless they did other day in one of those banal Sundayment of the Victorian century. In spite income

to the greatest and most enduring achieves. Then came the war. New sources of were revealed. Hundreds and papers--he will n assume that God's in his heaven and all's right with the of all its aps and dowus, its unhappy thousands of soldiers wives received world because we have learned to fly and wars and its Disraeliar charlatanry, it from the Government more than they shall soon be able to go round the world

was a century that set up democracy at had ever receiped from their lords and home and established literts as the masters and people still spent all that week, instead of the eighty days it

toucdation

the British Empire they earned stone of takes now or the three years it took Drake

the hey What does it matter, as Ruskin asked. It was the liberal ides that

of policy note of whether one fool can get from Buxton to

Trade was not'ualy it was as much u an ecoñonic. Bakewell in half an hour while another fool

gets from "Bakewell to Buxton proclamation of a new world gospel as things may Three

be useful handmaid the Alabama Arbitration. The Victorian that of the human spirit, but they may just era begun with the liberal triumph as easily be the energy of the human spirit saved Canada to the Empire and closed They may be only the instrument for with the fileral triumph that saved South It was marked substituting one form of servitude for Africa to the Empire. another and for debasing, life instead of by the Mutiny, but it was marked, too, ennobling it.

by the Proclamation of 1857 which is the Makna

Charta of Indian liberties.

In

MACAULAY AND ROSE BHES.

slaughtered saints, whose bones le scattered on the Alpine mountains But it was only the Victorian whose

cold. voice cauld be said to express the mara! confidence indignation of a national awake to wrong wherever it was don

un

THE KEYNOTE.

I

NEW SPENDTHRIFTY.

A new class of spender cufe into exist ence, the young officers in the majority of cases recruited from a class which bad never earned more than 3 or 4 week→ who found they had quite a lot of money to spend, oblivious of the fact that they paid no rent, very little in the shape of mess bilis, and that the clothing was more or less provided by the allowance they received from the Government.

It was this acceptance of material, There is no need to apologize for the achievements as the proof of Progress shat Victorian era. It had faults and limita-

To these may be added the enormous number of working men and women who was the source of the complacent self-satiations. Many of the articles of its creed faction which was so characteristic of the re found to have been illusions: many found themselves earning what to then Victorians. Even so good and humane a

of its activities were vain. Its morality

were extraordinary wages for the produc ma as Macaulay was led astray by man's was a little prudish. its mind was too

tion of war material, the daughters of sudden and astounding victory dvert

ver much on the counting-hous, and Samuel things. He saw science unveiling all the Smiles reflected its hagiology too faith-middle-cinas families who were being kept mysteries of matter, and the countryside fully. But it won freedom at home and by their parents and had their earnings belching forth magnificent clouds of gave freedom abroad; it preached social for pin money, and the hundred and one smoke and factory chimneys springing justice: practised the virtues of probity auxiliary classes which benefited indirect-

and reverenced like mushroonis everywhere, and the in public life valle heing converted into glorious utblic honour which are little referenced through the prosperity of the others. buddies of dingy,

and the imports now. We should have less anxiety hot

And he the future to-day if we could see prac and the export 45 shricked in

in triumph over these prodigies cal idealism and High statesmanship at of Progress. fuse bushes and poor the service of the antion in the same rea- rates, rather than steam engines and sure as they were at the service of Vip independence," be shouted at poor post tarian England. Daily Sewa"

who had been lamenting the

• Sol of the effects of the indust

revolution. Let the fields stand thick with factories and the hill-sides be crown- ed with black pyramids of slack and he had no

doubt that the New Jerusalem was

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aallowances which were paid out to d.. We are much less sure today. We can good deal of evidency had been mobilised officers and met. There is still see that that industrial revolution, com- brought before the Coal Commission time to check extravagance, the effect of bined with the deadly Enclosure Acts and to show that the miners were doing which will be expremed in demanda rival the eviction of the people from their their best to decrease the output, and Mr. ing those of the Bolshevist workman for inheritance of the soil,

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If you get in the habit of spending

lens used to do. also give you wn in purity from the Yorkshire moors. At one colliery

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in 1918 the average 'output thebit effect of the industrial revolution upon

far as it carry on.

tion of the Forces at the battle of Kwei- There is nothing exciting about a warlin, is dedicated to Bir ROBERT HART, the human entrees of this counted the bad font) ball a ton less. The statistics bond. It does not make you laugh or G.C.M.G., and Dr. A. BANNIE

gene) the average was only 2.8 tons, ought, properly HAIF A CENTURY REPUTATIONS Common life, but instead it fixed new and for other collieries which he had examin-bring the luxurious sense of comfort of Its description of Chiness Social

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saumsods and an order-to-view, will bring" Cromwell said. suits not the Common-were avowedly out to destroy private pro ita, owner more real pleasure than any wealth.

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