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The

A SIGH for VANISHED

EVE

SUNDAYS

VER since you or I can remember all human insti- tutions have been by general consent, on the decline; even, it might be said, the very days of the week.

Look, for instance, at Sunday, the far-famed British Sunday. It is by no means what it was; and I, for one, regret its trans- mutation, albelt because of the decorative side of it, as I will explain, rather than from an entirely religious point of view; because, while myself convinced that my countrymen, even if a little less sectarian, are no more generation

Thongkong Telegraph. irreligious than a

MONDAY, Nov. 25, 1935.

ISOLATION NOT POSSIBLE

ago, it must be admitted that they lack their former extrava- gance of ornamentation.

It was, I fancy, in seaside towns and in this very autumn,

The changing aspect of the Twen- tieth Century Sunday, reflected in the amazing growth of modern sport, particularly tha games illustrated above, brings this lament from

OSBERT SITWELL

that, however plous might be animals, the long dead play. the atmosphere of the day, yet, things of palaeontologists, had the name, Sunday-Sun-Day made their contribution to this still retained to a degree its old startling parade. These stoles." heathen significance, for by these capes and tippets and church-time between, that is, boas, which, only so few days March and November-it was ago, had been shaken free of nearly always fine, even though their summer hail of naphtha- the leaden cords and ropes of balls, had surely been fashioned the rain had uncoiled themselves of no mere mink or badger, but endlessly down into the streets were all that remained, except upon almost every other day of in the reconstructions. of the week.

scientists, of auk and elk and dodo and giant-sloth.

Now bells began chiming from a hundred sham-gothic. steeples, and drowned the clamour of the sea below, and soon little processions set out, hurrying along from their neat houses, clasping their prayer. books in their hands. But until you neared the street in which your church stood, it was dif- ficult to imagine what, in the way of vivid pageantry, lay in store for you: the fact being that these towns constituted, as it were, a museum of vehicles, a Zoo of dead fashions.

The small but noisy minority when it felt cold enough for furs at Home known as isolationists t already to be worn, and yet people who believe that Bri- there was enough heat in the tain should have nothing to do sun to impart a gentle sparkle with concerted efforts to preto, the-scene, that the British serve world peace-were recent-Sunday could be observed at its ly brought down to realities most typical, and therefore-at-drovo-up, one after another, to by the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, who declared that

its best.

it was impossible to stand In the early morning, the completely aloof from in band of the Salvation Army ternational obligations, except could be heard offering obvious at a price which no one would but joyous counsel to passers- be willing to pay. He pointed by; droning on and on: and as out that if the British Isles though all this blowing through were isolated and refused to play brazen instruments were in their part in war, it would be reality a scientific device-and necessary to make. Britain an assuredly it could be no musical armed camp and to give up all | one-to dispel the light cobweb hope of social progress. "Co-mists that clung to the autuma operative effort for peace," said morning, the clouds soon cleared Mr. Baldwin, "is not a dream. and the sun came out, dimpling It is not quixotic; it is hard the rough surface of the sea Tonmonsense applied to things below with the meaningless as they are. Alone we cannot affectation of a smile, and evok find pence. We can seek it withing a pale golden glint from the the other nations of the world.myriad glass windows of ter- And that is the basis of the race and crescent; League of Nations." There windows behind, which ancient can be no disputing the point invalid images, in shawls and that the tendency for war, once nee chps, lay propped upon it breaks out, is to spread, and their pillows.

if no attempts are made to stop

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it, the end may well be a world

conflagration. The

League of AND, indeed, it

was

The most fantastic equipages:

some rare

enticed to

brayely, to the jingling of re- ticules.

Once safely disengaged from their vehicles, as mollusc might be leave its shell, the old ladies

The men twirled their mou- showed themselves surprisingly alive and active, nodding, bes- staches and returned the blue. towing here a welcome, there a and unmeaning gaze of the sea frown. The men, for the most below. The part, wore top-hats and frock woman, coats and, as though already, in their imagination, seated in church, inclined to be silent and preoccupied.

Was

eye

of

every

or

however young ancient, was occupied in noting minutely the clothes of those round her and the more irreligi- ous or invalid, who had not attended service, peeped out shyly at the parade from be hind lace curtains.

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DIRECTLY the service

over, the flock poured out of the church door, depositing church, exchanging notes on their loads of fur-decked and the sermon. The pressure of BUT what happens to-day? frilled

old ladies at the lych the crowd, moving even more Sunday mornings one gate (then

something of a slowly than at the pace of the hears the barren repartee of novelty in the way of antiques slowest, was very great; which tennis balls at the clubs and on revived). Wagonettes, vic- torias, broughams, barouches of to a degree constrained the talk, private lawns. The golf courses many an unnamed variety drove especially among the men, who, are filled with a myriad of up, and their occupants almost though they threw out their people. Horse-riding is in full-

chests

much, were nervous

swing. There are bowls and of making some silly remark that would be overheard the nineteenth hole for the less- and repeated.

strenuous inclined.

never so

A man in a heavy coat lolls

I wrote inhabitants (since the moro elaborate vehicles up peared as much the home of the equally elaborately dressed creatures they carried as ram-

So all wended toward the ' shackle caravans are clearly the promenade, where the old ladies on the halcony reading a Sun- dwelling place of unkempt would leave their carriages, to day

paper, and a gramophone snail's pace by gipsies) were helped out in due follow at a

be heard playing on the.- course by rather rustic footmen their side, and would walk in buff coats and cockaded top- along, leaning on the arms of first floor, even through the

pealing bells. hats, who beckoned and lured nieces or paid attendants. glass

them on.

very

Nations was founded with the noticeable in that epoch, inte idea of stopping wars before Victorian or early Edwardian,

THE RIGHT TO DIE

How their clothes, as they emerged, from the darkness of closed carriages, blazed out in full glory, extraordinary and in

tricale creations of artifice!

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It seemed, indeed, sometimes, though not alone extinct

NOTES OF THE DAY

they begin, but, should they oceur, the full powers of its members should be used to [localise it and bring it to an end as soon as possible. It is a recog- nition of these points which has caused Britain to take the initia- Though the measure for presenta compared with the fortitudo which tive in getting united action. tion to Parliament, to legalise the this right to die would involve. among the League members to right to a quick and painless death First the patient, having made his restrain Italy in her war of ag- in cases of incurable disease, has resolve, must obtain an application powerful barking, it is exceedingly form. He must consult his nearest gression against Ethiopia. Un-doubtful if it will obtain the neces-relative and put his affairs in order. happily, hostilities began before sary popular approval for many He must sign the form in presence the League could actively inter- year. The proposal raises, various of two witnesses, one of whom must vene, but this is not surprising objections, mainly moral, and 'reli- be an official witness. Finally, the when it is borne in mind that gious, and such objections are very completed form must be sent to a this

is the first occasion on slowly overcenie. But even if they euthanasia referee appointed by the which concerted pressure has were overcome it is not likely that Minister of Health, and an interval been brought to bear on a nation this new freedom, would be exer- of daya will elapse before the 'opera- eised by many persons. Evention is carried out. Plenty of time adjudged to be guilty of golug healthy people are loath to face the here for resolution to wax and back on its sworn obligations. luty of making a will. They dowane. A patient might readily, in Britain has played, and is still not like to contemplate the implica- a paroxysm of pain, call out for playng, a leading role in the tions it suggests, though their sudden death. But it would be preservation of the only system reason tells them that it brings very different thing to make up his which promises a death-blow to death no nearer. Many persons mind, as it were, in cold blood, and unrestrained aggression. To have have an unensy aversion to that act.hold calmly to his decision for days stood aloof in splendid isolation There are also many who approve while he went through all these at. this juncture would have of cremation in theory, yet neglect legal formalities. been to encourage international to write Instructions for the dis- posal of their bodies, because, they

LTD.sed to have condoned shrink from thinking of the process

a situation fraught with untold and of the "nothingness" it involves, future danger.

These, however, are small matters

This is a theoretical statement of the ease. Let us now consider facts. A tripper is lying in a snow-bound cabinTM with both feet

The promenade lay above After church the few old lofty cliffs, tamed now and people who still tremble along turned into municipal gardens, like spectres, among the round- wherein stood stunted trees,

their heads averted from the eyed staring of pushing, impi- waves, their trunks stretched in ous crowds, now look as though static agony of flight from the world belonged to them no them. Up and down this long more, for they are hidden in the walk the ancient relics tottered haze of petrolfumes.

THE WILL

TO LIVE.

would have shown the strength and |courage of others of his breed.

Take the case of a prospector, 300 miles from the nearest outpost frozen, without food, and without civilisation-and that only a village the remotest chance of obtaining of cabins on the bank of the upper any help. Even If Homic North Peace River, Hudson's Hope. This woods traveller stumbles through man had the will to live and the tho blizzard into drifted snow which is the trapper's. There was one chance in a thousand the hamp of courage to face dreadful pain. shelter, he can be of little use. that he might win through with The man with the frozen feet is too his life. He had frozen the fingers" far gone for that. Gangrene has. of his left hand and two toes on his set in. He knows for a certainty left foot. He led his knife-edge that a most unpleasant denth lies into something resembling a small. just ahead. He knows all about it Baw and amputated his own fingera because he has seen a good friend and toes. Then, with a sack of: die in the same manner. He is flour and a few pounds of bacon on. lying on the floor of the cabin and his back-that is all he possessed he drags himself painfully to the in the way of food-he trudged wall, struggles up to a low bunk through the winter cold, on snow- where his rifle lles. Kneeling, with shoes, all the way to Hudson's the muzzle in his mouth, he pulls Hope. He was no more courageous. the trigger. Three days later than the other fellow, who blew out Royal Canadian Mounted Police his brains. He had a fighting constable found the man's body. chance; the other had not. If you Surely it was no crime that that were faced with certain death from trapper should have taken his own thirst and hanger, with both logs life, preferring the swifter passage broken and a rifle by your side.. Into the Beyond. Nor was his act would you take the short cut? any sign of weakness. The bamɩ And if you did, could it be called man in different circumstances a crime?