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PROGRESS AT BRUSSELS
Many will read with pleased surprise the report of proceed Ings in Brussels on Saturday. A few will be annoyed. Even the most pessimistic League loyalist and exponent of peace will
LAMENT
for the FALLEN LEAVES
by Llewelyn Powys
OLSTOY once likened our existence to the ease of a man who is clinging to moss on the edge of a dark and bottomless well. Let this be as it may. It is surely in the month of November that melancholy can be justified if it can ever be justified.
In Northem climates during this month almost the whole of Our lighter creation is possessed by this malady of dolour. moments acem to have ended as the leaves have left the trees.
A reindeer perhaps remains frolle enough as he carelessly canters his master's sled over crisp ice, and possibly Polar bears also, on pads well provided with hair against slipping. as they stand firm, to sniff the first flurry of snow.
Ol
In England, however, the bad- gers now retire to their seta and Composo
themselves for a long sleep, their ribs well larded with nutriment of October blackberries. Squirrels doze in their trer-top attics, only a muffy red tail to cover up their chill prying noses. particularly sunny mornings they may wake for a few hours to over- haul their butteries for
drowsy nibble nt beech mast or hazel nut. The habits of the birds alter also. It is the season of acant feeding. Even the spirits of house- Consider how
top sparrows droop.
“RICORDİ” “CARL FISCHER" admit that something has been dapper these little minions of
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Aphrodite can he on An April morning when the -garden 13 alive with the hum of honey becs, sweet with the scent of arabis, and yellow with forsythiin and daffodils.
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The hen birds then can never be satisfied and the cock spar- rows are for ever giving a polish to their broad bills in prepara- tion for fresh sales.
An old philosopher declared that he had many a time scen. a sparrow sink prostrate to the mound from an excess of galety. It November these little fowl their courage. lase something of scarce having time so much as to twitter 50 occupied are they in sharking for scraps,
The Anches also chaffinches, greenfinches, goldfinches, and all-- take a vow of chastity; the males keeping together and the females keeping together. Everywhere
hundreds flocks, numbering little individual souls, rise in B light cloud off the stubble with a
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TO-DAY'S THOUGHT
I saw old Autumn in the misty mòrn Stand shadowless like Silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow car from woods forlorn."
-THOMAS HOOD, Ode to Auturan.
startling swish of small sun- transparent wings.
This year, by all accounts, it is to be a hard winter. in Dorset there Have not been so many berrieg se in the hedges for many an' autumn. As likely ns not Britam will experience an old-fashioned winter with hard weather setting in
Cora Christmas and Insting on till Saint Valentine's Day!
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ordinate appetite for the fruit of the "golden bough" that the storm-cock earned its Saxon name of misaal-thrush.
rest Along with the
of the Middle- creatures dwelling Earth we hortals at this season are aware of ugly depressions not easy to be shulen off, Newis and frogs dodge down to the mud at the bottom of ponds, as soon as ever they feel the gloom of these weeks with the sun slowly dying..
No such easy expedient has been provided for us, and yet, both in town and country, wise men make It will be then impossible to pass.shift to do what they can to pre-
serve their cheer. a holly tree without disturbing
It is best in November to eat with blackbirds
their dieling
heartly. Now, if ever, are the days golden bills on this scarlet fruit of
for well-constituted trencher-men In dur nature's wild bounty. orchards misscl thrushes will to display their prowess. Rather to glut bird-bellies with their favourite delicacy, causing
pay marauders to mutter and growl at finding so many a ne mistletoe spray stripped bare of the allver ornaments of a Druid's marriage.
Indeed, it was because of its in-
Plenty of cream in porringers Ior breakfast, roast-beef and Yorkshire pudding for lunch, crumpets, in the pride of their grease, for tea, and turtle soups for dinner. Such should be the dishes favoured by those who can afford to sit fat by the fire; and for the
A Million Learn At Night
rest of us fried bacon, bread and dripping, herrings from Yarmouth, and cels from the Humber, Thaines, Parrett and Frome done to n turn, and served up with a dish of crisp crackling chips; also, as often we can come by it, a glass of honest alel
us
In medieval times they used to say that there were four stages of drunkenness. (1) To be drunk le sheep. (2) To be drunk like a Ilon. (3) To be drunk like an ape..
(4) To bo drunk like a hog.
Let those who may aspire to the last three states, but let our condi- tion be as often as possible like to that of harmless lambs-innocent drunk that is drunk enough to have drowned malice and revived good nature, but not drunk enough to trouble our wives or the clergy.
Often enough because employ- ment is scarce during these hang- dog weeks true lovers are separated and have perforce to remain dis- consolate through long evenings listening to rain drearily driving against the weeping window-panes of lonely half-bedrooms.
Let them take comfort from the adage so dear to Thomas Bawick- "Good times, and bad times, and all times get over." These part- ings will not last for ever.
"I will come back to you and you
to me;
When
the poplar-trees blow white and the rooks fly home. And the fishermen draw their
nets out of the sea;
I with come back to you and you
to me."
Christmas will soon be here with the sun triumphant turning back once more and the days beginning to lengthen, and with all the rich promise of the spring and summer beière us. There are many ways of taking life, but the least com- mendable is to judge it to be cheap and of little worth.
accomplished, if it is only re- affirmation of the majority opinion that wars of to-day are the business of everyone; that aggression is not so easily dis- guised as in earlier times; that evasion of treaty obligations cannot be shirked by frrespon- sibles; and that international action, either by mediation or some means not yet decided on, is the best method of stopping or preventing hostilities. At the present stage of procced- ings, with the draft declaration still awaiting the formal ap- proval of the Brussels Confer- ence, it must not be supposed that the powers are materially nearer thoir goal-settlement of the Sino-Japanese controversy. In point of fact, it would not be surprising if the attitude of the conferees had stimulating Japanese national-walk more stifly, if not bel- 1, ism and the Continental policy the best psychological defence: ligerently, assuming that to be
But likewise, it will stimulate against the meddlesome Western China, or should do, and with a nations. On the other hand,VENING classes In England have In co-operation with the leading
China will realise, if she had not begun again..
professional and other nuthorities, different sort of encouragement. done already, that the vast pre- Over a million enrolments have a series of national certificates has If the Conference finally apponderance of world sympathy been made for tuition this year. been Instituted whereby students by proves the declaration which it is with her soldiers at the front. They will be catered for by 100,000 of Institutes and colleges may
specialised classes, covering over 200 evening tuition obtain a recognised half-mark of achievement in such and She will recognise that there is different subjects. has been considering,
subjects as electrical und mechanical an increasing possibility of
There is practically no art, engineering, building, chemistry. which, so far, only Italy has tangible assistance, other than science, or craft in which evening textiles, gus engineering and supply. opposed, the powers will have bandages and anaesthetics and instruction cannot be obtained. agreed, formally, that it is "the such medical supplies, which Commercial subjects declared purpose of Japan to 20-one will begrudge her. And destroy the will and ability of greatly, that some act of media- vision and town planning, mineralogy In this efficiency is its adaptability. China to resist" and that "the tion or intervention will effec- and manicure, for the payment of The whole system is decentralised.
What admirable wisdom was in nominal fees ranging from a few
the possession of the mistletor Japanese concept of the issues tively put a halt to a campaign shillings to a maximum of about 30, under the ultimate control of the
education authorities Gipsy with whom George Borrow Dy thin means the is entirely different from that upon her territory which falls expert teachers of any of them are individual fairly accurately under the de-nt the disposal of anyone willing to concerned.
a great deal more than the song of of most other nations." Japan finition of invasion.
devole the winter evenings to "some- special needs of a particular district taked! It may be said that he knew
may be especially catered for, belinraoh. thing worth while."
mining area
residential
"When a man dies, he is cast will be forced to the conclusion
The nations have reached a
suburb of Greater London.
into the carth, and his wife and Although the contributory prin- that all her explanations, all point where a clear-cut decision:
Young people from the school- ciple
child sorrow over him..... universal, local authorities
'And do you think that is the annually Some leaving nge of 14 to an average ago vole
five, million her propagandising by special on the Far East issue is advis-
able, nay, essential. When auch of 18 represent perhaps almost half pounds
end of man?' the maintenance (o emissaries, all her carefully
the London of the total attendance.
There's an end of him, brother, napokesman as
"further education" facilities, about The remainder vary from 18 to half of which is refunded by the more's the pity.". planned diplomacy, have failed Times declares itself with such to convince any but friends, conviction it behooves British 50 ranging from typists Improving Board of Education on n roughly
to naval "pound for pound" baals.
Plans are already architects in the making; from the
on foot bound to her by political treaty, people to pay attention. The their shorthand speed of the justice of her claims. Times declares that the United peer who recently qualified for his increase even this expenditure, so
to the Staten has obviously the most university degree through evening pressing is the need for extension. She will be forced
to the octogenarian Jady in checking Japanese study
dic? Leeds Education Commillee, in its realisation that she has carried concern once too often the pitcher to the expansion at the expense of occupying her spare time with the annual report published recently
(Continued on Page 10.) wall of plausibility. You can others, for eventually her own study of French. fool all the people some of the nearer, vital interests would be time, and some of the people all effected by the Japanese policy. leader's role. British interests ship. the time; but you can't fool all The Times, therefore, expects in Asia the people all the time, as one Washington to take the lead: Japanese of America's great mon once and adds that where she leads than are tok the electors. And so, Britain will co-operate. realising the antagonism grow fortunately, it may well be that extensive. ing against her, Japan is likely Washington considers i Bri-east to starch her cont of pride and tain's place to
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every
is no doubt of the practical
kind, languages, optics, aeronautics,ciency of cut on she may hope, though not too brewing, hairdressing, millinery, tele- Perhaps the greatest single factor
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If a man or woman is free from physical pain, somehow or another they should be able to nose out pleasure as a niouse will nose out a crumb on a back kitchen floor. The grave, alas! will put an end to such Jolly foraging soon enough.
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Is sweet, brother. Do you think so? Think so!
Britain, France,, the are for nearer to the United States and the smaller sphere of influence democracies must stand shoulder American holdings in to shoulder, speaking with one Un- South Amdrica, far more voice in conference, moving as Half the Empire lies one if ever the occasion makes Suez. This is no necessary the thwarting of any assume the time to bickor over lender- would-be tyrant.
of
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18 sweet, brother: who would wish to
I would wish to die—— You talk like a Gorglo-which Is the same as talking like a fool. Were you a Romany Chal, you. would talk wiser. A Romany Chal would wish to live for ever.
In alckness, brother? There's the sun and stars, brother.
In blindness, Jasper?
There's the wind on the heath.. brother: If I could only feel that, I would gladly live for overl
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