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YOUTH AND WAR It is interesting to speculate how long the institution of war could be maintained if it were

MONDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

MERE "GADGETS,**

Beenuse the parents of the Dionne quintuplets are still good "copy," the Associated Press sent out a story that they missed nt. tending church one Sunday. They wore in Chicago, where, under the management of An amuscinent promoter, they have been present- ed to vaudeville audiences, says the Christian Science Monitur. Many people miss church attendance who cannot even offer the excuse of tõe much sight-seeing in a stronge metropolis. The incident, how- ever, does throw into high relief the attitude of the sturdy little doctor of the children when New Yorkers enthusiastically extended him welcome a few weeks ago. There was something rather ad- mirable in the way Dr. Dafor refused to be swept off his mentai feel on his first visit to that elly. It was all very interesting, the ky-scrapers and the subways, the Broadway crowds and the electric signs, but one gathered that the doctor daaned them as gadgets which could not decoy him into forgetting that the fundamentals of life were to be found just as readily in the little town of Callen- der, Ontario.

THE SIMPLE LIFE

He is quoted as saying recently: "The people whom I know best, the families of the far-flung. Canadian countryside among whom I have practiced for more than a quarter of a century, in many respecta lend poverty-stricken lives. But they are rich in faith, devout bellevera and attendants at their church, and their children are the better for it." How many less simple folk are letting a preoccupation with material "gadgets," a never satis fed search for entertainment, or just indolence, keep them too fre- quently from stoking the truly "better things" of life?

APRIL 15, 1935.

Our King and Queen

on their Silver Jubilee

Princess May and her three brothers.

The Very Idea!

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WOMEN

By CECIL PALMER

It is extraordinary that although women have now penetrated al- most every sphere of pubile life," still comparatively few of them are capable of doing themselves justice when they have to make a speech.

At home their, gift of tongue.id usually superlative. But deprivo. them of the benign tolerance of their family circles, and, for all oratorical purposes, they are tongue-tied.

I happen to have earned a most inenviable reputation for making amusing after-dinner speeches-- unenylable chiefly because the in- exorable tyranny of having to bo humorous not infrequently drives me to my wits end. And the hon- our thrust upon me is irksome and embarrassing for another and equally cogent reason.

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I am now badgered (with dis- arming politeness, admittedly) by ambitious women who naively re quest me, to waste my time writing speeches that will not waste theirs. Every public speaker knows that proposing the LORAL of "Tho Ladies" in an exceedingly tricky. business. But it is oratory in the kindergarten stage compared with the effort required ́to Interpret what a woman would like to any who has not the foggiest iden what it is or how to say it. The one and only man, who might have made

Even as a girl of fourteen, father. Edward, was then only Princess Victoria May of Teck. Prince of Wales.) The be- 1

success of the job is William une day to be the Empire's trothal, it was whispered at the Sharp, alias Fiona Macleod-and Queen, was as comely and grace-time, was a "state affair." It lahe, alas is dead, a battle flag over the American ful a princess as any in the land. now common knowledge that Women specch-makers-with a

A SUBSIDY IS A SUBSIDY

President Roosevelt has run up

His special!

merchant marine.

message to Congress calling for

few brilliant exceptions can be classified into three groups. Thore

are those whose matter is superior

to the manner of ita presentation,

But the betrothal of Princess There are others whose manner of presentation disguises very thinly ing. It calls a spade a spade. haughtiness and dignity de- May and the Duke of Clarence the poor quality of the matter. policies that hitherto have camou This is more than can be said for manded of royalty, but capable was broken by death. Prince And there is that large and grow- luged subsidies as low-interest at all times of displaying the Albert Victor died in January, ing section whose matter and methods are calculated to dissipate bearing loans for private ship- human emotions, characteristic 1892, and Edward's second son, the good effects of a good dinner buikling. and as inflated payments for ocean mail contracts. But it of the loving wife and mother. Prince George, became heir to with almost startling saddenness. also entalla grave responsibilities, To-day's picture shows Prin- the throne. The President says in effect, that subsidisation should

It is my belief that women, as a

impossible to persuade all young,

Trained early in life in queen- both the Princess and the Duke untried soldiers that the affair subalisation of private ship Inly ways, she became a woman of were genuinely fond of each was a gay and glamorous adven-terests is a blunt declaration of ture. The young fellow who is rics force and direction that has the occasion demanded, with the

American shipping policy. It car-perfect assurance, touched, when other.

the front starting off for

in-hitherto been conspletrously lack- variably goes with a song and a smile. How he comes back may be something else again; but at least he starts out with the conviction that the sky is blue, that he is a stout fellow, and that unimaginable excitement and daring deeds are ahead of

cover for themselves that one of whole, continue to fail as speech. makers because they will not dia- him. All this was called to mind recently by publication of a can ships, and that it should take of fourteen. With her are her newspaper photograph showing other governments grant their Prince Francis

into consideration subsidies which brothers, Prince Adolphus (left), months after the death of the the secrets of public speaking is Duke, Princess May was en-a cunning and subtle combination (right) and

Women, in a contingent of Italian troops shipping. The problem this policy

gaged to marry Prince George. fact, ought to be superlatively

of art and artfulness.

Perhaps they did not know the good public speakers, for there is far the United States shall-go-In granting subsidies on the basis of children of Francis, Duke of story of how-Prince Albert-Vic-very-little-in-art-that-they-cannot- ments grant their shipping is to the amounts which foreign govern-Teck. This picture was taken in /tor, on his deathbed, drew his feel and very little about artful- adopt an elastic yardstick which 1881. intense international competition has stretched to the breaking point in many maritime nations.

difference in relatively higher cost fore her marriage) at the age reasons" was heard when, a few

cover the cess May (as she was known be-

Again the whisper of "state of bullding and maintaining Amer-

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A favourite occupation of physl- digging, and similar back-break-cal scientists ls the carefree up- | ing and unromantic jobs. Every setting of history, fables, or co- army since then has had to mon belief by the insertion of fucts learn the same sort of lesson. which prove or explain how things really happened. From time Im- The Crusaders started out with memorial the good dirt regions of fluttering banners, and discover-earth have been considered stable. ed that typhus was one of those Even the Romans, famed instiga- tors of tall stories, never thought features of war that they had of calling the ground anything but not thought about. In the Boer terra firma. Now, Dr. Harian War the same story was repeat- Stetson, Harvard astrophysicist, od, while the young. Germans Ing on a thin upper "crust" of a tells us that not only are we walk- who gally chalked “Nach Paris" wrinkled old apple called Earth, on their railway cars as they left but even this crust heaves to and Berlin had no way of foreseeing Everyone knows the sea has its fro, like the tides of the sea. the horrors of Verdun and ebb and flow, but no one guessed Ypres. And so it goes. The that land areas could be affected history of war is one long, tragic ilkowise until Dr. Stetson and so. story of terrible disillusionment With superaccurato

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of youth, and it is there for chronometors, and more careful anyone to read; but no one heeds squinting at the stars, he corrected it. Each young generation those "clocks" to the split second must seemingly learn for itself. ica drift apart as much as sixty- and found that Europe and Amor- It simply will not believe what three feet twice daily and come it reads.

together again by a similar amount,

were

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brother George to him and said:ness that they do not know.

Another secret of successful Nine years later, when the "Take care of her for

after-dinner speaking that strange- beautiful Princess was 23, she; George."

ly eludes most women is the fact that virtually no effort of wit is a well-fed required to make audience laugh. And the simplest of all methods of producing this comforting and encouraging effect is the exploitation of the gentle art of pulling one's own leg.

was betrothed to Prince Albert To this day, it is said that the Victor, Duke of Clarence, heir in Queen still wears the ring given succession to the throne. (His to her by her first-betrothed.

"Four months of it! Europe, Africa, the Orlent--and nobody

to talk to but Charles!"

A story told against oneself win reduce the most stubborn and phlegmatle audience to tears—or laughter. And this is precisely the last thing in the world that a self-respecting woman will agree to do. The art of the ridiculous in the sense in which it over- flows the pages of Pickwick, for example-is almost non-existent

in women.

And finally, here aro a few "tips" for women who aspire to challengo man's supreme oratory! (1) When you get up to speak, have something to say, say 11, and sit down.

(2) Remember that you aro addressing your audience (18 d tehole. Therefore speak clearly and use your lovely eyes to focus the attention of those seated for thest away from you. It flatters them and, if your speech is renson- ably decent in quality, they wil Batter you.

(3) Don't keep on telling the chairman how honoured you feel in being asked to speak. No man likes to be told publicly that he has no sense of selection.

(4) Remember with humility in your heart that a short, good spouch is only a little better than no speech at all.

And now having put the cat among the pigeons, I give formal notice of my carly departure for the Canary Islands,