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THE SNAKE OF PROHIBITION ME STEPHEN LEACOCK'S WARN- ING TO BEITAIN. ORGANIZED HYPOCRISY

TO-DAYS LOVE LETTERS THE OLD AND NEW TERMS OF ENDEARMENT.

Because intter from a woman to her Mr. Stephen tragick. hend of the delover, read in a court eave the other day. contained a frequent - repetition of the partment of political ventiony at MeGill | word " love counsel refused to read it. University, Montreal as well as a hum and the incident engse some amusement in ouroüs novelist, wijting on the warning of prohibition in America in the Nation ud Aeriet, just issued, says

is time that people in England should have proper warning of the social catastrophe whigit has merwhehned Ame rien. While there is yet time the danger

should be averted..

court.

There is little doubt that the tone of love lettus has changed with the times, but whether for batter or worse is a matter af opinion:

Singe, favourites will receive quite a number of love letters Fram mirers, but from their disclosures to the love, Stter has got a trifle more "alandy" writer 'it would appear that the "milyen

a wording, and the appead more var From the crusade of despised abashed'

They contain litt that ruuld be urinority, & mark for goodknatured rids

described vapid. sai a popular eute rather than far, the prohiisition tress and the endearing comuenge.

} 1 •LY L 3 { [* vast repitinentalment is often more suggestive of comrade

hip than the deeper triendship. I was propaganda, backed by unlimited money, engineered by organized hypocrisy. Taming over a number of old love letters def the stress of war it amasqueraded as the other day, and I could not help being the crowning effort of patriotism. The struck by the omerat, war over, it sits enthroned as a seinl tyranny, backed by it full force of the Law, the like of which has not been seen

nuovament

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in English speaking, cutaries since the

it at Candation Abtains in mine.provinres have voted themarly dry. The dryness

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POPULAR NOVELJT'S" VIEWS.

Such words as · Darling. Baba.” Swertest." and "those per nams that gured, so frequently in the hand-wrated ad carefully written epistle, are gone, and in their place we have Old This

Pay Chuminic, and the youthfully expressive Cheerio "..

If anyone should know mything of the state of affairs was created in Gaunda. love letter it should be the popular writer

was questions thing There

first of total of entinental stories, and Mr. Charles national prohibition,

was Garvice, whose remarkable sales have t done bit by hit. Municipalities voted tracted much attention, gave his views to themselves dryith but little opposia Daily Chronicle representative,

tion.

Mr.

The individual citizen, still able | Carvice has just published another book,

to order his liquor from the putside called The Girl I Love." and its barac gave but little lied to what was M pening.

MIRENCE OF PUBLIC LEADERS. National prohibitiony, let it big ob served, has not Iven adopted either in the United States or in Canada by * popular vote. i never would be has been carried only by the votes of the Legislatures by the actions of the politi cfans responsive to the demand of the minority But the great mass of the took no action. There has grown

people among all those who ought to

be the Teac

leaders .of public opinion, a strange

teristic features, and the popular" sppent

it has already made chalk-nge the idea chat sentiment is no longer wanted.

A love legter is on" of the most pres cious things in the world." said "Mr." Carice, whethie is to the sincere outs pourings of the heart, the anguished appent for the love of the beloved one, or the insincere attempt to gain not, a heart but a fortune.

LOVE AND LITERATURE.

* And the interest of the document does not depend on the culture or the illite.

ronspiracy of loner. Nobody seen willing in bear witness to how widely of the writer indeed in the Inter case there is an additional pathos in the diffused is the habit of normal wholesome drinking, and of the great benefits to be

it

derived sit where I have worked

The

bed phrasing and the inarierats spelling. of the episc«.

Blore you trewly and I wish your whe love me, du.

In history and inditerature exist some for nearly 20 years contains in its facul exquisite specimens of the love letter: but ties & great number of scholarly inam inclined to think that the most dustrious men who lifework cannot be effective one I have ever seen consisted of derided or despised even by the

salaried the lines, and badly spelt at that: agitator of a prohibitionist society. Yet **Dear Sue, the great majority of them drink. I that awful word in the full gloomy Bense given to it by the teintuller mean that if

f you ask these en to

dianer and offer them a glass of wine they will take Some will take two. have even seen them take Scntel and

During these same years

I have been privileged to know a great many of the

leading aware of

of Montreal, wher

brains and energy and servies to the coin, munity cannet too match admire, If there are any of them who do not drink. can only way that I have not seen them Of the cleray I annor speak. But in days more chyrful than the "pement gloomy times there were at least those t them who thought a glass of port no very dreadful Bin

THE WORKING MAN.

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Yures over and ever.

'Could there be a more direct appeal ? says "verything; and if it did not win the heart of the recipient. It should have done da..

A great dealuf amusement was caused: lately by the repetition of the Inve" in the letter of a young woman read in court. The amusement was misplaced. There is no more beautiful word in the English language, and I have a suspicion that nowadays it is used not too often, bat to infrequently.

After all, love is the most important, thing in the world. An extravagant statement? Consider it. and you will admit that am right"

WHY A BARGEE SWEARS.

EXPERT VIEWS ON PROF." MURRAY'S THEORY.

Bus these people one might ohjeet are but a class, and a small one at that. What about the ordinary working mati? Surely he is not to be sacrificed for the sake of the leisure hours of the intelleen. tual classes But here, so it seems to me, is where the strongest argument The against prohibition comes in

man who begins day" Professor Gilbert Murray's view that the lot of the working ma labuar at the age of 16 and ends it at use of bad language is due to a slight the age of 70, who starts work every nervous convulsion momentarily destroy- morning while the rest of us are still in ing self-control and releasing subconsci- bed, who has no sleep after his lunch and ous interests which are normally suppress- ny vacation trip to Florida. is inconceived is not supported by experts.

A

demobilized. ably hard

"

recrinion recenseant major,

his

It is a sober fart that if those of us Lasked who are doctors, lawyers, professors, and obviously, the

Kaid that,

merchants were suddenly transferred by up in his was lesser was not very well!

some evil magician to the rank of a work bont

He wouldn't talk

and subcon if he'd spent a few years Army Pasily holds the

ing inno, "we should feel much as if wcious vous convulsions

had been sent to the penitentiary. And in the

Army

The it is equally a fus that we should realize record for swearing. There may be men just how much a glass of ale and a pipe in civil life now who swear freely, but of I tobacco means to a saber, industrious they would be the first to admit that they Well, the a Lictur-book drunk own this to Army training. working man-not a

because ard-after his hours of work.

coesn't swear

he has lt

puis soldier

fis language hiri for the moment of his relaxation on. pervous convulsions

no less lurid when he is perfectly easy an quality with Kings and plutocrats.

"It is no use

cheerful than when he is say that tobacco and

annoyed. aborteos his life bet it. It needs short. On the whole, in fact, I should say that ening. It is no use to say that beer sogs he swears more elaborately when he is -his cesophagus and loosens his meter happy-when, say, he is telling a story- muscles Lut it do so. He is better off than when he is in a temper. Bad' with loos motor racks and 4 soggy language is the normal language of the cophagus and a

a mug of ale beside him Army. discontent of an

to

THE REST FELLOWS. But it's perfectly harmless. It means

than in the cherrie the work of life nothing. I don't believe it has any de

activity that knows only and nothing of its comforts.

Meantime it is well for the British grading influence. The most lurid swear- If they do not ers are often the best fellows. They can people to be warned. strangle in its cradle the snake of pro- easily drop it if they want to. hibition, then the country will be given over in its due time to the regne of the WHOLESALE AND RETAIL fanatic, the informer and the tyrant, such

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Sir Malcolm Morris had some amusing things to say concerning fashion at the Infant Welfare Conference in London recently.

Sir Malcolm said: "I want to make the standard of health become a question of fashion. You know how strong a fuc- tor fashion is in our social life. If you go into the streets to day you will see your sisters clothed in garments that are anything but suitable for an inclement day.

It's difficult to say exactly why the soldier swears. Probably be awears bet case in the Army it's the thing. The soldier likes to look on himself as some. thing different from a civilian. So he has a language of his own-which he drops when he takes off his khaki.”

A Thaines burger-though he resented being

considered an expert-said that ha was quite unable to agree with Professor Murray. In his opinion there were times "when ordinary language wasn't good

When he swore, he swore be enough" cause he meant it. He didn't know what. the Professor meant by the release of subconscious interests."

AS THE GOLFER BEES (T.

A golfer, with A handicap of 22, thought, on the contrary, that there might possibly be something in the Professor's explanation. "It is true." he said, that when watching my ball trickle into bunker I have been conscious of t nervous convulsion', and I daresay that this mar sometimes have led to my use of the word damn. It is good to know

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"Some years ago I asked the ladies to take one inch off their skirts, which about that time fastion decreed should sweep the ground and thus collect the germs of tuberculosis. I asked in those days for that there is so scientific an explanation aa inch. Go into the streets now, and of, in my, case, a distressingly frequent see what they have taken off. An inch occurence.

-many elis. It is all to the good from What a jockey said after reading Pro- a sanitary point of view, but I am not quite so sure that it is from the point of view of modesty."

Tessor Murray's explanation is, unfor- tunately, not quite suitable for reproduc. tion.

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