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"PENNSYLVANIA VACUUM CUP" "KELLY SPRINGFIELD

"FISKE"

"LEE

·HARD TIMES BUT NOT

HARD LINES.

(By Robt. MacWhirter.)

Now a heading like that is what

I call style. Talking of style re- minds me of a paragraph I read other day. It went like

the this

"Tetrazzini stood distributing signed autographs, throwing them over the orchestra to her friends."

Think of what an unlovely mess of the soup Her High Chostiness would have made bad she thrown one of those autographs before she had signed it! That only shows ye how careful ye have to

bo.

But as I was going to say coming out on the ship I got through quite a lot of the Christ

mas Numbers. From the look of them I should say they were more wonderful than ever. Nover hava advertisements been so plentiful, coloured plates so profuse and the general air of prosperity, goodwill' and all the rest of it so much to the fore. Now wi' the country in the state it whe when I left it. what wo need most is a few Hard Time Numbers. No' that I ap- prove, mind ye, of a newspaper

or

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

DAIRY

NOTICE.

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New shipment ex S/S "GLENAMOY "

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As I was saying, the merry-go- round is gradually slowing down.

The

an orator either, for thatthe ragtail and bobtail of the Colony would be paying good matter, backing folks up against

money to see me in the pictures morry throng. 1 wall and ramming helpful statistica into them wi' a force If you don't much ears for this among the up-to-the-minute folke pump, but, all the same, at Home high faluting kind of stuff, I think in the Coronet Gazette. Ye see this winter there are more hungry it would be wiser to give it a miss want to make myself perfectly stomachs than midges about altogether, for bye and bye I'm right wi' yo before I start, other Folke there wore who had to get going to drop into plain English, wise some among ye will again a fow sharp lessons in the school or as plain as it is possible for abo accusing me of having an of adversity and that's no a Scotsman to write and at the excess of saug froid in my system And while lots on the other hand may correspondence school kind of same time be understood. tuition, mind I'm telling ye. It's it's all going to be about Hard dispense wi' the sugar coating

Times, its Cause and its Cure, and call it en plein d-check. a pretty sorrowful business but a good many people have them-that is, if I'm able and the selves to blame. Their's was the Telegraph isna' forced between kind of myopia for which they hand by the the Police to suspend If Router is to be trusted, there is a slumpio prices, a slump is would insist in using plus glasses, publication.

If trade and in due season there So, I'm No minus quantity for themt

warning ye. please. Their motto was to let you're the kind of roader that must be a slump in wages. to-morrow take care of itself prefers the Bystander to Gibbon's growth of unemployment through- time out the country is now obvious to while they got busy wi' the Decline and Full, your eating, dancing and being would really be more profitably everyone wi' eyes in their heads spent getting the dinner cocktails and the paper delivered regular The great day of pleasure and ready, for, in addition to my of an evening. As a matter of 80 many money-to-burn is passing. The alleged style, by and by I'm fact it serves to parpone now to tail end of the procession is just going to get much dryer than say that there are

unemployables in the community and that there is always work about round the corner now. The Pussyfoot ever dreamed of. Belfast Orangemen in their

Now about the Cure for Hard for the willing. Large numbere

of those

out Of course, you under- palmy days, when they confined Times.

011 short time ammunition to bolt heads and stand, I really know no more plate punchings used to tote up about it than I do of bull fight-shirkers or industrial indifferents. the sum total of their enjoymenting; but naturally I read and that if they had faults they were according to the number of hours plus what other folks say when common to all classes-the false it took their drum-beating, fite-they're no cursing the weather is optimism which went wi' the playing processions to a given about all I have to go on. You reaction after the war and which point. The Great Get-on-with-it also understand, I hopo, that if in many cases led to reckless Procession has taken a few years did really have the prescription personal expenditure. For a to march past but the camp up my sleeve, I'd no' be footling time the spending game was followers are near at hand at last away at this sereed. A grateful the

merry.

TO-DAY TILL FRIDAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15

Also

MAE MARSH

IN

"THE BELOVED TRAITOR"

BRITISH GAZETTE

"HIGH AND DIZZY"

WITH

HAROLD

LLOYD

is absolutely it! The

Comedy of the year transcending even "Haunted Spooks.”

PHONE 1743

or

now

of

are

work

not

on

of

most popular pastíme practised. Not only was money

feverish haste spent wi

accepted the

pursuite holidays but it was squandered on jewellery and a dozen things that would never have boon desired it they had never been sen. Many folks couldn't lower their credit balance at the bank fast enough without employing machinery. That's how lots o' them began to buy motor care and when they couldn't, hired them. For a time, squandermania: could only be properly diagnosed by bankers and tho like, for the majority of our people could not grasp the economic consequences of the war. The keeping up of the standard of living was ani automatic process. In order to make no mistake on this scors the Government simply issued a hundred million Treasury notes every now and then and so the dance of pleasure was permitted' to carry on.

average

To make matters worse, our old customers abroad are poverty: stricken. We the world's greatest exporting nation, cannot get rid of our goods, Our stocks are

the and excessive employer finds himself at the end of his resources for want of capital. The breakdown of the system of exchange is also doing its bit in the paralysis of the world's trade.

Of course, these are so many platitudes, They are said with all the air of one telling the whole truth about something so simple as to be self evident. But that is the only way I can ever BOOK EAPLY hope to express myself clearly without making a song and dance about it, and, incidentally, show- Now if I how clever I am. ing were to have these time-worn phrases set to music-bagpipe music for instance--that would make me appear cleverer still, but the sum total of those getting my meaning would be still further reduced. No, I'm not so vain na all that--That line repre- sents in blue pencil where the Editor has decided to perform the operation. The appendix, as cut out, will be presented Hater.

THE CORONET

(To be Continued?)

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