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THURSDAY, JULT 14, 1898.

IMPERIAL RELATIONSHIPS

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By

HILDE MARCHANT

LOT of the personal, domestic goods sold to the

THERE

are only two ways t which the new State has made any obvious changes-obvious because the peasants grumble about them. The first le a regulation for the preservation of bits of the ancient Empire that poke up through the soil on the hillside terraces. Ravello and district was once thriving senside spa for wealthy Romans, and has a good ration of ruina, Now when the

pensent's spade turns over the head of a column he cannot use it to Oll a hole in the wall. He has municipal authorities. They Investigate, and sometimes find some treasure has to take lits plants else- where.

The peasant, can't quite understand this new value put on old stones. In the old Ravello town, where a dne. courtyard of noblemen's houses was unearthed, a family moved in, paid £500 for the freehold of £ whole terrace, bath, fountain, and

four

the

The peasants have scraped and raked, packing the sparse dusting of soll into terraces; bullt gardens and lemon groves against the stone-wall mountains. Cobbles hold up the pre-

there is a green spiral of fertility,

WO campaigns-or it is only bits of statuary. They sel spaghett! and oil from under one of outside Italy that there are the arches. With considerable patch- For 2,000 years they have lived- Italian women who felt they needed any scruples about the Italian ing up it is now a fine house for un- Independent, self-contained-out of them were English, French or Ameri- Spanish campaign -- have taught limited children. The thrifty their own back gardens. The earth can.

pea- During sanctions they got on Italy many useful tricks. How to gants like to make use of their ruins. has never let them down.

well without them or with an Italian economise, and live on the country's

The

Dictator Secs more than Down in the valley it is caster copy, and now they feel a certain own strength, is one.

artistic value in these remnants. it is wide enough for a plough, and sonal sanctions back again.

pleasure in imposng their own per-

They have built a magnificent road They are great propaganda-they they make a profit that fills the ships

between Naples and Pompell. It is bring home the Empire lesson. in Amala Buy.

An American friend of mine in an impressive plece of propaganda, On the walls of the Forum in Rome

show maps. They Italy's defence being in the earth, Rome is going crazy because her for it stendies the tourists' nerves to are Mussolini, from peasant stock, has last lipstick-brought by friends ride on a real highway instead of growth of the ancient Roman Empire, Europe to Britain. learned the value of frugality-this from Partes down to the rim and picking out a path between the limp- spreading over

The last map shows the beglaning of living on what grows under your no one is going to Paris for a month, ing mule carts.

the Second Great Empire, with Africa hands. But he has had to buy four She goes wistfully from shop to shop built it on the hurd lava rock that did not include Britain.

and I arrived with the usual stump.

Yet it was a cheap road-they magnited to such a slze that the map more ship-loads of wheat; this year's crop is not good,

for traitors.

was blasted out of Pompeii's grave. Most of the advertising appeal to USSOLINI han taken the women is on the lines of a recruiting foed-yourself trick from poster Your duty to the Nation, the hill slopes into the towns. He and Defence of the Country, is pro- Is tenching them independence-bably to buy a shampoo which has making do on what the country pro- an authentic French perfume but is duces.

Italian throughout, and if the lather isn't quite as good, at least you have habil. made a contribution to the welfare He was beginning to ban all manner of the State. It is not a matter of of imported foreign products months expense. You just cannot buy any before Geneva made a punishment thing else. out of it. Now he uses the word Snerlfice-hos begun a frantie cam paign to make the peninsula a self- contained, isolated island.

MUS

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He has made a national martyr out of every woman who

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The traffle is twenty ellos (44lbs.). consumption.

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African War.

notion. It was a weman's nn- tural job to bring the wood up the hillside. Walking up that hill with nothing on my head but a hat reduced me to exhaustion.

Suballtutes are his way of making A RICH humour is often associated try, an' as for yer silver and gold-to enforce it.

with the utterances of many old- let us pray!"

ends meet. You should really buy

The men resent the new law, but the police, well aware of the bright- ness of their uniforms, are anxious

They have been told it is for the good of the race. The old way of Mrs, Italy, for the chances are it is that the humour was so often unter was attempting to pick out the horse produces a weak, race, with a your yard of tweed from the dairy, time Scoltish minsiters, and the fact At a wedding ceremony the minis- piling up your wife's back like a pack made from milk. Milk has been conscious makes it all the more bridegroom, who was a stranger to heavy percentage of cripples. And developed as a substitute for wool.

telling.

him.

they don't make good soldiers.

Motherhood is well boosted "Are you the happy man?" he throughout Italy, and in the tourist asked of the most likely looking male,

shops you buy picture postcards of the view or hoppy Italian mothers other with lots of plump babies.

They recently held an exhibition

women are mad about,

It is "Chisalta" and can be patrio- tically advertised £18 "Our Own

"Oh, Lord," prayed ane Scote

Friday night."

"That," returned the solemnly, "remains to be seen."

Another minister, who was dis- satisfied with the collections, once announced from the pulpit.

"We have tried to raise the need-

PROSPEROUS peasant cals ment on feast days and celebrations: the poorer peasant cats it once a year.

Canada took part in the South wool." There is a cotton substitute;} congregation something of a handful. ful money by all the usual methods. dried, the rough meat made into sau-

There was an Edinburgh minister who had the reputation of finding his fresh from the forest. It is called But one Sunday he got his own back "Snofucca" and is made from wood, and is "Italy's Own Cotton"

when he was preaching on Jib.

"My brethren," he commented, "Job, in the first place, was a sairly-

Job, in the

A. W.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

money,

sticks or oil, but that is dying out now. By the new law they find it cheaper to use mules.

There is no need to pity the Italian peasants--they are content.

IN

N Rome the worker's social position is established by how many times he can eat meat, The city worker, with a salary of 700 lire (£7 8s.) a month, spends 250 Hire a month on rent, and still saves. one-eight of his

of his salary.

yound, and,

Spaghett is 2 city worker

the peasant,

So far, we have tried honestly, my sages, the head and waste pickled,

When a pig is killed, the meat is. The lesson taught at that time had its effect on the future

friends. Now we are going to see and the tall handed over to baby for what a bazaar will do.” policies of Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

a toy. That pig lasts a year. Another well-known minister had Pasta (spaghetti-type food), bread, Twenty-nine years ago, in mov-King had announced that Parlia- tried mun; Job, in the second place, obtained the band of one of the wine, oll and vegetables are the daily ing a naval defence resolutionment will do what the people was an uncommonly patient nan; Guards regiments to play at his diet. There are good fresh veget- in the Canadian House of Com-crisis. That is, as experience and Instly, had Job preached there, cold, snell wind was blowing, but. stored for the winter. Wine is bar- third place, never special Sunday afternoon service. It ables in the garden nearly all the want it to do when there is a preached in the Coorate, fourthly, was a miserably wet day, and a year round, and root vegetables are mona, Sir Wilfrid said: "The has proved, what Parliament Lord help his patience!" House expresses its firm convic-will have to do.

in spite of this, the church

tered a cauliflower, a quart bottle. was Pasta and oil, rent and clothes are packed. Wagner's "Gotterdammer- tion that whenever the need

At another time, when the mem- ung" was to be rendered..

the only things that need ready When Sir Wilfrid Laurier bers were taking their places very arises the Canadian people will made his declaration of "loyal "Oh, that I could hear the pence the preacher begun, and then heer who tills the ground at the rate noisily, this same minister protested, "The band will now play 'Gott'—' | This is earned by the farm labour- be found ready and willing to and hearty co-operation make any sacrifice that is re- for the maintenance of the in- half the noise ye mak wi' yer cheepin' friends," he admitted frankly, "but hour day. The wife used to earn birling in the plate at the door wi' paused. can't pronounce it, of seven lire (1s. a fourteen- quired to give to the Imperial tegrity and honour of the Em-shoon! Oh, that Paul had been there it seems extraordinarily appropriate three lire (74d.) humping lemons, authorities the most loyal and pire," it was decreed, under the wa lang wudden ladle, for yer for a day like this."

then Naval Act, that the ships coppers are strangers in a fur coun- hearty co-operation in every of the Canadian Navy would be movement for the maintenance placed at the disposal of the of the integrity and honour of British Admiralty at the out. the Empire."

break of any emergency, Mr. How the outlook of Liberalism King has not even given an in- has changed is emphasised by of war, his

timation that, in the emergency recent debates. In one of these advise Parliament to render Government will the question of the possibility of whatever assistance this country Canada remaining neutral in a can to the maintenance of the war in which the Empire was Empire's honour and integrity. engaged was canvassed. In an- To that extent he has offered no other debate Mr.

encouragement to the idea of Mackenzie King, the Prime Minister, said: herself has given an entirely dif

Imperial unity. Great Britain "Parliament will decide upon our ferent answer to the call of that course... in the light of ali Imperial unity. Her increasing the circumstances at the time." armaments are for the mainten- This latter assertion means that, ance of the security of the Em- so far as war is concerned in pire, not for herself alone. In which the British Empire finds the Minister of National De- Canada, Mr. Ian Mackenzie, itself

engaged, the present fence, has made it clear re- Liberal Government has no peatedly that what Canada is policy. Sir Wilfrid Laurier.doing for defensive purposes is when he led the Liberals, was simply for the defence of her more specific. He said that own shores, although it is a fact Canada would be ready in the that the frontiers of the Domin- time of the Empire's need, and ion's inviolability are on the thore is no justifiable reason Seven Seas. Fortunately the why Mr. King should not say sayings of politicians have little! the same. The saving grace of or nothing to do with the even-1 the situation is that the people tualities of war or peace. When of the Dominion will be ready in a crisis arises in which the pre- case of emergency; that, is, that servation of the Empire la in- their minds will be made up volved, this country will be without any difficulty, howover found again playing the same unprepared they may be in a part as she played in the Great military sense. It would have War. been more to the point if Mr.

"I saw a beautiful apartment to -day, Herman--but it didn't have

an electric sign outside?”

practically lives on it He never drinks wine with his spaghetti, al- way's lots of water. That makes you feel as if you have had a good meal.

Wine is 3d a quart, and they plan to have one good meal

day with wine and perhaps meat. It costs cight lire (is. 8d.) for four people. Coffee is expensive-38, Od, a pound; eggs are cheap,

Every member of the family has one good suit or dress for the Sun- day church walk. It is well cut, but the material is poor and loses shape easily.

The cinema, if they want to go to it, costs 24d, but they are not very interested. They prefer a sort of family whist.

Cost of living in Rome is rising- pasta is up 30 per cent, oil is up. Rents have not yet gone up, but there is talk of it. Salaries are up gener- ally 12 per cent.

Every one is happy about it-they- have. national creed to live on, even though

cost.

they have to tum last year's

Mussolini in building up his deer fences in the home, and in this he has at least one natural support the Italian woman's talent to makon, mont out of a handful of spaghetti, en onion, a tomato.

Perhaps a little of the credit

should. to her husband for thinking it is t meal,

Ko

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