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"The Barence of all vulgarity lios in want of asimation." Con- 'sider this, O my readers, who are always being told that the essence of vulgarity lies in too much sensation!

But I would teach him these I shall never forget how, when . Now Ruskin was a great artist Take the body first. My son things in a way of my own. I had been in the Army just over who realised the obligation upon would swim before he was six, That is to say, I would not a week, I and half a dozen other the artist to be a showman as box before he was eight, master attempt to give him a smatter- civilians held forth at mess one well. Light is not to be hidden it stand out from, the a simple set of carpenter's ing of the lot, which means that night on the advantages of a under bushels, and Michael crowd. With its sleek, busi-tools by the age of ten, and the ten years after he has left bookish upbringing.

Angelo was right to blazon his ness-like lines and powerful, principle of the, internal com- school he will have forgotten all.

paintings on the best and biggest- dependablá engine, it is a truck bustion engine by the time he about all of them. you will be proud to own, a truck was twelve.

I would find out in which we were in the middle of Wilt Similarly

It was a pouring wet, night, ceilings he could find.

Ruskin, having which inspires 'feeling of pres- fige that suggests a price much In the matter of the mind I direction my boy's bent lay and phire; and the justly annoyed something striking to say, said would have him taught. Greek then encourage him along that brigadier said: "Each of you it in the most striking way and Latin, English grammar bent."

gentlemen will march six 'men imaginable, Having "arrested and literature, French and If I found when he was four- and a corporal on to the Downs attention with his sensational German, history and geography, teen that he still confused threg miles from here, and make sentence he goes on to explain algebra, geometry, and trigono- oxygen with hydrogen

and them comfortable for the night. that it is man's duty to be a metry, physics and chemistry, couldn't begin to size up a pro. You have an hour to get ready, sensation - seeker and not a music and drawing, and last, blem in algebra by the mere and in the morning cach corporat sensation-monger:---- shorthand, typewriting and look of it, but on the other hand will report to me-low you got "Simple and innocent vul- bookkeeping,

"had a passion for irregular on!"

garity is merely an untrained verbs and was a demon at Need I say that it was the and undeveloped bluntness of double entry, I should know the corporal and the six men who body and mind; but in true NOTES OF THE DAY kind of brain my boy was de- made each officer comfortable? inbred vulgarity there is a veloping. And I should develop whereby the brigadier was dis- dreadful callousness which, in that kind and drop most of the comfited. There is no moral to extremity, becomes capable of others.

every sort of bestial habit and crime, without fear, without pleasure, without horror, and Because, to put it shortly, far as I am a bookish person without pity. It is in the blunt. ference; nor whether, if she docs, knowledge has kindred grooves, there is a danger that this hand and the dead heart; in the article is being written from too diseased habit, in the hardened bookish an anglo. Obviously my conscience, that men become. advice will be against excess of

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вау definitely whether or not Japan is definitely to leave the Naval Con-

HONGKONG-CANTON it will have any serious con-

sequences. In view of the bellef that the Conference would be

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Now that the Canton-Hankow wreaked upon the Japanese demand Railway is progressing towards for parity, it has been reported, final completion, there are pros- Great Britain has already taken pects in the near future of South steps to lay the. keels of two £7,- China having direct connection 500,000 super-dreadnoughts, even with Europe vin the Hankow-mightler than the Rodney or Nel- Pelping and trans-Siberian lines. son. But of that there is no

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by James Agate

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And he goes on with words which should be printed in gold and set on the desk of every Cabinet Minister in the land to-day, sont by post to every member of Parliament, and blared through loud-speakers

*

There is a mean wonder, as of

a child who sees a juggler toss- ing golden balls. But do you

The development will be one of confirmation. Now we are going A boy who finds his way to the

the land. These aro the the utmost importance to this to venture a prognostication, having piano naturally, will want to against taking a wholly material once a week to every voter in

still part of the world. In his récent

a good many hundreds of know languages, and a scientist view of life. There are

words:- words purporting to explain the who is no mathematician is a people who when they meet a talk to the Royal Empire Society

boat without a rudder. Similar writing "bloke" say: "Ah, if only position at the Naval Conference.

I had your book-learning?"> in London, Sir Cecil Clementi Wo

base our prediction on two botanist who is an authority made reference to this project facts: namely, that Japan will in- on roots need not know about and to the need of a definite sist upon a common. apper limit Racine-in which, reader, you

in naval armaments and that the are right to detect a highly thing which holds good for the or the sensation less, with which I want therefore to find some- think that the wonder is ignoble, link being forged between

other powers, Britain and America cultured joke! the Capton-Hankow, and the principally, will oppose her.

sons of bookworms, of book- every human soul is called to Canton-Kowloon systems. The surmise that the refusal to consider to grow up to be a Greek And I think I have found what tossed through the night by the But whether my boy is going binders, and of bookmakers, watch the golden balls of heaven trouble is that no junction has this formula must wreck the con-

an old book by an Hand that made them? yet been effected between the ference.. It takes no very painful scholar, an astronomer, a profes. I want in

sional footballer, or a green- author so out of date that if you two terminal stations at Canton, reach the conclusion that Japan grocer, I should insist on his mentioned him in Bloomsbury There is a mean curiosity, as largely due, as Sir Cecil stated, anticipates this impasse, and she being able to take down a letter the raised eyebrows would knock of a child opening a forbidden -----------door, or a servantTMprying-into to an ill-defined suspicion in the is prepared to withdraw from the in shorthand and type it correct half the slates off minds of certain Chinese politi-Up to now the delegates have

her master's business; and ‘a conference as soon as it is reached. ly.

The name of this quite too noble curiosity, questioning, in cians that to link up the two lines merely managed to postpone the But there is yet another kind of is John Ruskin, and the title of of the great river beyond the So much for body and mind. pricelessly primitive old prune the front of danger, the source might prejudice Chinese trade. Inevitable. The results are some- This is a very shortsighted view, thing else again. Japan has an-culture which partakes of both, the book in which the passage sand, the place of the great

nounced that she will revise her would have ray boy learn all occurs is the quite too back continents beyond the sea;-. and, when analysed, it will be international relations in the event that I imagine a Boy Scout has achingly back numbered nobler curiosity still, which ques- found totally unsound. The fact of a naval armaments race.. Some to learn-first aid, elementary "Sesame and Lilles." The pas- tions of the source of the River is that the provision of a loop observers believe she has already cooking, how to make a fire, sage begins with this sensational of Life, and of the space of the lino between the two systems revised them. If a naval race is what to do with string.

Continent of Heaven-things imminent and it is by no means would be of as much benefit to unavoidable--it, may

which "the angels desire to look mean very Canton as to this Colony. Hong-

into," kong, as Sir Cecil stated, is the natural deep-sea port of South the picture and the strategie ad- China; it is so by reason of fantages, or disadvantages, geographical conditions which possession of this base will be more cannot be altered. A recognt-than ever apparent to interested tion of this point would result in closer contacts between Hong kong and Canton and be bene ficinl to both. Sir Cecil, in the

great tension in the Pacific. In any event, It will certainly bring Hongkong into the forefront of

parties.

of

(Since the above was written, the Japanese delegates have withdrawn from the Conference, which will, however, continue its work in the course of his speech, also made among the other Powers.),

hope of attaining an agreement reference to the desirability of

the two centres being linked by policy have been so frequently aerial services. The two matters stated by us that they call for no aro closely Inter-related, and it is further elaboration. Tho' ques- to be hoped that the difficulties tion has now become so urgent which at present stand in the that it is high time further efforts were made to secure a way of an aerial agreement being final adjustment of the matter. reached will soon be overcome. Inasmuch as it is, as we have Issues affecting landing rights shown, related to the question of are involved, but the more the aerial communication between problem is studied, the more the two ports, the thought sug- cogent becomes the argument

gests itself that something might| that this Colony's aviation policy double-barrelled agreement bo done by the conclusion of-a should be based on a willingness which would give Chinese planea to welcome air liners of all na- the right to land here and also tionalities, regardless of whether involve construction of the loop- reciprocal rights are conceded or line needed to link the two rail- not. Only in this manner will way systems having their tor- Hongkong be able to take ita with this end in viow might minii in Canton., Negotiations rightful place as one of the big with advantage to both centres airports of the world. The be initiated without further de argumenta in favour of such a lav.

sentence:-

So the anxiety is ignoble, with

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark which you linger over the course

"It would be something to amuse the baby when you' aren't home.”

and catastrophe of an idle tale; but do you think the anxiety is less, or greater, with which you. watch, or ought to watch, the dealings of fate and destiny with the life of an agonised nation?

Alas! it is the narrowness, cel fishness, minuteness of your sensation that you have to de- plore in England at this day songation which spends itself in bouquets and speechça: in revel- lings and junketings; in sham fights and gay puppet shows, while you can look on and see noble nations murdered, man by man, without an effort or a tear.

I suggest, that the foregoing should be cabled in full, with out the omission of a comma, to Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler, and to every crowned, head, President, Prime Minister and Chancellor in the world.

Now how does this hang on to my theme?' In this way, would have my son taught to oschew the wrong vulgarity and aspouse the right. I would want him to learn, the best kind of commonness, the commonness, which was the property of cer tain dahermen nineteen hundred. years ago.".