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A CORDIAL AMERICAN ––

APPRECIATION.

It is estimated that 300,000 New

Two Americans have written the follow Yorkers attended the obsequies of King Alcohol last night and early this morning letter to. The Times:--

Something more needs to be said about

[3 8. C. W. SALESY, P.R..KI+IN.;} (Vice-Chairman" of the National Council of Publie Morals.) Canada confirms my creed that the guting, and there was much the same sort tare of the racial life is the vital indus of demonstration in every American city. te of any people, and that decay of After business was over yesterday, people English hospitality. One rather expecte with one accord marched to the restate that well-known Americans will be enter the mortal disease of Futions. let any lover of Ritain visit rats, hotels, and cabarets, where rain handsomely here, as well-known parenthood is

srat had been booked in advance, and cur mighty Dominion and judge for him

The Englishnew, are in the United States. self the truth of the contention that we welled to their hearts content.

Americans afa of But when mere shere po New

York streets reminded out. awn but do not occtipy, police but dea

an empty Empin And, having cached, as he must, the cunclusions which London on Maleking night, and the

we have been, by people under no obliga. been urging upon the British pelice here, who sympathise with the de-treated so coniially and hospitably na people for so many years let him digest posed monarch. allowed a free hand.

There were paradies everywhere, headed tions un us, whom we have met just the by no means surprising but pangent fash, which I have just learnt. that het by bands which droned out dirges and easantly, the situation calls for seinethiag the war Americans were migrating inte fineral marches, and John Barleycorn.

[enrried on a stretcher, was buried by tens special- say a letter to: The Times, tback- Canada at the rate of 200,000 per annum. It is time for a Briteus to ask ourselves of thousands, with hilariou, erremonialing you with all our hearts. Although we what is really happening to our Imperial At every big hotel, even the very best, have visited in our own South and West, life, and what it portends for our future.uch as the Flazi, Krickerbocker, Conimo; famous for hospitality, we have never dore and Pennsylvania, the crowds experienced anything like the English trooped in and out all night. In one brand. Brondwag hostelry a hibulous gentleman paraphed Tennyson's Crossing the Har,'

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ns follows:

As was pointed out here last year, our are almost great oversens Dominions empty. In the British Isles we are 373 to the squam mile in Australia they are to the quare ons, and in Canads mil Australia, which is 70,000 s

Taited States, has miles larger than the

marka reached the five nython

Greater population of two-thirds the

11, Londo000.000 according to the sitnite States, London, whilst the United States

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We go back home with the warmest English feelings of affection for pur friends and acquaintances, Esn't this one Canswer to the question of Angh-Anwrican urlersanding We shall always want to be good to any English visitors wauaji meet in the United States, and we hopa more of you will come, especially goung pen de The only English have met who don't like ur understand or country are those who have never been in it, and in the same way, Americans who dislike England are mostly those who don't know English people.

then by the uncertainty of the law and

Where that reserved, superior English- the apparent unwillingness of the auth rities to enfores pruhibition to the letter. According to the licensed trade, beers tay mag be. I don't know, but he hasa't and wines with not more than 2.73been in evidense during the months we have en in England. We think he is a alcohol content are still permissible.

In some cities there had been three-day myth. We ray 'good hye' with regret, tiesh celebrations of the carnival type, and bless you, every one: everywhere, the closing hours of the old regime were marked by a tremendous

Bendy.and geod Five Star

A no pier, enl? to me, And may there be no maing at the bus

When I put out for tea, While whisky is dead and buried in the there will be enough recent estimates &

statistical capital and her

American ingenuity remaining to secure Canada, much larger than the United

all the light beer wanted. plus Califor. States, and endowed with illimitable in clares. This conviction is streng natural resources, has about 4000,000, a gure emparable with that of Greater London. Nothing could be more natural than the How of Americans, even though their own country is still in need of many pianeers, northwards to our great with its infante opportunities Dominion, In the library of Mr. William Jennings Вгуны,

the other day, I picked up for a few seconds a copy of a volums by W. T. Stead, entitled The Americanisa tion of the World. As to that. nol, but as to the Americanisation of rush to the liquor stores to stock up for the dry season nhend. Many have res Canada, who can doubt who knows even

much is has here been stated of the Merv which, with economy, will last for years, and those who have not have great facts? I am not so rash or demographic

hopes. tess is Д process insular 2s to say that this

On the contrary, Canada bad og

matiss benefit euermonsly from the intimacy of her relations with her wonderful neigh bour; but I ask Britons to acquaint them selves with the facts of population and migration, and ask.what they must per tend.

KNOW

Why have made the United States and Canada what they are and will bet Undoubtedly we have, predominantly It is surely trán. and overwhelmingly

.

THE BEAUTY OF MIDDLE AGE

It is often said by lovers the beauti- ful that there is nothing more attractive, more pleasing, than a young girl witle C'er- beautiful features and colouring.

WHY THE WORLD IS GOING | tainly a youthful beauty is a delight to

work."

WRONG.

bold, but are there but some elderly women-mathers of grown-up children or unmarried women long past the twen ties whose faces are equally attractive. sometimes even more sol

This form of beauty does not depend un good features, on the absence of make-up." Indeed, the wrinkles, ur un

use of cosmetics, in almost every case. tends, is a woman grows older, to detract from, rather than add to her beauty. Wrinkles naturally come with the passing nature woman whose face This was the keynote of a powerful and of years, and

absolutely unlined has rather un mai. Bat there of St. Paul's, at St. Mary Abbots, Kennel or wounds that make fur beste sombre sermon delivered by Dear Inge, sington, on July 12th,

Want of character even more that want of intelligence is the reason why all schemes of human government re fuse to work. We all ought to make it A principle to five more simply than We are obliged to live, and make our as. I told an American, audiener in this

protest against all luxury, slackness in city the other day, that the United States

dishonesty, and useless production. did. But thing Britain is the finest bow did England (and Scotland and Ire land and Wales) achieve the present splendours and powers of the United States and Canada? lindoubtedly by emigration. According to a figure quoted by Professor, Arthur Keith some years

too dark in which age, about sixty millions--or two-thirds to paint the prospects of civilisation."

-of the

said population of

the dean. Alter five years of war as then estimated- the United States are really British. For the world is poorer by the loss of 5,000,000 many generations our little islands begat young and vigorous men Wealth and and bred and sens forth weruss the seas credit have been destroyed to an extent We are young people, who leave which we still fail to realise sue the North American Cont

leaving to our children the inheritance of If

I

bankrupt. 持 the wonder and hope of the world,

of

There is no colour

Democracy is everywhere threatened we who have made it so. The migrants by anarchism operating through strikes from our shores have been derived from In my opinion, the age of industrialism, all parts of the United Kingdom.. and which began about 150 years ago, has certainly the English have been most received its death wound, and it it goes numerous; but emigration from Scotland the great cities it has dotted over Europe and Ireland has been relatively much will have to go, too, and we cannot guess

what will become of our inhabitants." grunter so that the Scottish and Irish constitute a considerably higher propor tion of the British stock in both the United States and Canada than they do in the Old Country,

A MOMENTOUS IMPERIAL ACT.

N

ure souc rinkles while others have an opposite effect Laughing eenstantly is supposed to pre- duce premature wrinkles, but even if they Kore prematurels, have not such wrinkles

charm all their own?

3K DEXP BEAUTY,

That the beauty of middle age dies not depet don perfection of features is prov ed by the fact that when one, gazes at some elderly women who were accounted beautiful in their youth one wonders how they could ever have had any pretension tu good locks. Their beauty could only have been skin deep." as it were, and Is now almost obliterated by the effects of the unpleasant emotions they have experienced since their early days.

There are, of course, some women, bele tiful in youth, whe remain beautiful all their lives. Look at the face of the Queen of Rumania. She has now grown-up sons and daughters, but yet it would be hardly

to excel ber in real beauty. possible for any débutante at her Court Che could name many other highly

retained their beauty up to, middle-age, placed or well-known women who have

that is really a subsidiary matter com- pared with the broad fact of the decay of parenthood in Britain and the sub rapidly So much for the past. But what's stantial consequence that the just is prologue," and it is pleasant tunder other flags than ours will constitute increasing young populations who live quote Shakespeare in the capital of the United States, remembering that these the emigrants into Canada, for instance.. wonderful people speak English, Ameri- henceforth as we have seen to be already cans though they call themselves. And, the

case. The Scottish instance is especially strik- and even beyond. Will Eller Terry ever source again. to quote from the same

The Scottish stock, when non-be anything but beautiful? She, indeed. There are many events in the womb of ing.

delivered. What is alcoholic, is superb, if not nearly supreme, fully understands the art of growing old the obstetric prognosis? to determine. We are not as astronomers,

Time which will be that is for us among human types. Its past and pre-gracefully.

sent worth for the United States and

EMOTIONS AND LINES,

The art of retaining or cultivating

recording a comet's past and predicting Canada can scarcely be over-stated. This its future course, which, though foreste. I knew even before spending beveral ing, they cannot control. We are a part weeks in these countries, but the worth beauty depends partly on health, per- The har. of all that shall be: we can both foresee of the Scottish stek can be fully appre haps, but to a far greater extent o

einted only when one really encounters it character and personality,

is what should and control: we are the phenomena we

That on this side. observe

1 be armed at, the English- and they are esentially has so largely fertii of life, which I many of the persember of the Society mena of the human will. It is my basi

and which is so greally for the Study of Orthopsychice told me. of motive lends to confict, of Conflict ness to repeat what I believe that we extend Canada and Australi, bas! have won the war but we are losing the dried up-to-day. In Septland, as in Enz. I the einations, and this indecision or un- before the war. the inquiries of the land in France, parenthood is now

race, and therefore the peace. Even

Dominions Royal Commission showed

din

rit, which is often due to unconscious.

that the fall in the British birth-rate,alent. The racial poisons, as I term uses, is reflected in time in the face, the

and the venereal dises

diseases, exact heary

toll upon such parenthood as mitted by the contemporary and the mortal statistics of today It was to lear

ar, just

before that Sir Rider Haggard had consented to towards Canada, for in join our Nationat Bit with an interval. :

physal organism being reflex of the personality.

A woman who has been through a great deal of mental suffering is often most beautiful in old age, simply beca UŠE

"ecnsequences spell the doom of to- left England, he has reduced all her conflicting emo

which is really the most momentous Ima perial fact of the past half-century, hadis produced its inevitable Time was, not so long ago. when our imperial duty, clearly was, as some few of us

us pointed

to redirect the out emigrather stance,

than the United States

stream

which has been at work,

Commission

the

rions into one perfect whole, and arrived t a peaceful state of mind, by perhaps An act of self-surrender or by continually

Owing to the imbecile neglect of this ever since 1913. But I confess to a feeling triumphing over unworthy motives. over here that the magnitude and great Imperial interest by successive speed of the facts are more than our beautiful in old age. There has been con Governmenta these islands were

tinually

Younging large numbers of solendid Commission, or any Commission, a

of the

much more largely integrin, au facto, who

now, at last, there has

of

and, if we l tending tokeously or ha

A thoroughly selfish person is rarely

lict from outside infuences warring against self-centred ideas, and either dis content self-satisfaction is imprinted on the face."

and,

splendid cope with who should have migrated

"Your bit and study ther year the facts becom within not without the Empire. This serious before I do not want to

been in large measure attain-

the astronomer, prescient but. objeet ha ed: migration in recent times. has been

watchen

The In thinking about the people one meets a comet.

one can often predict how they will look which are potent enough to deter

in after years. There is one girl I know mamine that our race shall live must be official body, of which the latest name,

who is generally considered quite plain. But for the moment, when I left England in aroused. The Churches should be able to

Her only good feature is her eyes. but I fear that their influence in May, was the Government Emigration Britain is very much less than it appears

I imagine she will be quite comely to " Committee. designed to do for intra-im- perial migration what the few students to be so far as I can observe, both in the look upon when she is getting old. She

United States

is particularly kind and good-natured, Mean Imperie tragedy

demography have long de while,

"I am aure, seldom, if ever, harbours. manded.

ws, penalise and. is that we should h

de net positively prohibit, worthy pateht. nasty.or spiteful thought. have awakened to the importance hood by every means, emigration when we have no more emi-

consciously

that eito Rras to spare For that is the fact and no one seems to realise what, indeed. The evidence, laid before the Dominions the Imperial end of such a course must Royal Commission, together with recent papers read before the Royn: Statistical be, even though we know that our great Society; notably by Dr. E. C. Snow. Imperial predecessors have gone duly ** the abyss along these very lines, leaving shows that we have no more young men to spare for peopling our cipta pirn only their names to recall them in the Young women, indeed, we possess, and I night of time.

No one who has seen what I have seen. have urged for many years that we should

and see here in Washington, Canda

pair encourage and safeguard their migratio of the tongue that Shakespeare spake. to Canada, thus, helping to correct the balance of the sexes, both in Britain and The United States are going on, and our tongue and traditions with them. But is Canada, to the advantage of morality,

is e a Briton, and for the British Em monogamy, and the Imperial race. But pire, that I now plead for parenthood.

(Continued at funt of next column.) Daily Telegraph.

A WARNING... Aacther girl is a perfect beauty, so beautiful that artists are always wanting

to paint her. Before I got to know her I used to find a pure delight in looking | at. when, as

dining as the little restaurant the was frequent Bat now it is no pleasure to me to look on her beauty. I know what fat, and how self-centred and discontent life she leads the girl who shares her

ed she is. It does not need any great gift of prophecy to predict for her a most unlovely old age-unless she is warn ed in time and tries to alter bar inental outlook. R. H.