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BOUT 130 Soropti- ("Sister-

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There are alrendy, it is said, more than 60 Soroptimist clubs In Great Britain, and it is the boast of their members that they are the most punctual women in the country.

Their club meetings begin on the stroke of the hour; they break up at the appointed minute. Lunches and speechies bogin and end as if regulated by clockwork.

I am strongly in favour of punctuality, but it seems to me that, if it is carried too far, it may easily be turned into a vice. The clock is a very useful in- strument, but I do not see why

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TRunspay, August 11, 1930,

LAST CHANCE OF COMPROMISE

n dictator. Many people pro-

ARE

fess to find immense happiness in obeying dictatore, but I doubt whether it is good for them, all the same.

in its

to

Foreigners do not seem mind late starts so much. Some years ago, I went to a theatre in Romo about ten minutes late and found that most of thio audience had not, yot arrived and that (with, as it turned out, some reason) nobody expected the curtain to rise for at least another quarter of an hour. But nobody cared. Possibly, sinco tho

triumph of Fascism, tho Anglo-Saxon vice of punctuality has spread even to the Italian theatre..

TF is certainly one of the proudest boasts of the Fascists that, since Mussolint came into power, the Italian trains have been among the most punctual in Europe.

On the whole, however, the punctual people have the best time of it. They may not be the world's hardest workers, but they live enviably unruffled lives. If only they would stop

YOU PUNCTUAL?

f

IF you want to have an easy life, my first ad-

trying to make the lives of the unpunctual a burden to them, I would praise them as unre- servedly as they praise them-

Punctuality should be the oil that makes the wheels of life go smoothly. It should never be allowed to become bad vinegar.

"Be punctual." A GARDEN

WITH A

What a nuisance punctuality THERE was I, panting around him are all as fresh us can be was shown lately when

with the haste I had paint, having no consciences to selves. the B.B.C. decided on a policy made, flushed with apprehension compel

them- them to, exert of rigid obedience to the clock as I thought of my school selves.

programmes. Many listeners will remember how the wrong with cruel words, and master's gift for putting me in one evening a talk by Mr. C. B. working my brain at high pres Cochran was cut off in the In spite of the reported and middle of a sentence in order sure in order to invent an excuse that would win sympathy from probably exaggerated optimism gramme might not be late.

that the next part of the pro- a python, while all the time the vice to you is: in the chancelleries of Europe,

punctual ones were sitting in And Mr. Cochran was just the class-room with consciences through life admirably with no I once knew a man who got developments in the current coming to the best part of his selfishly at ease and basking in other qualification except punc-

talk. Russo-Japanese dispute are

One can imagine how exas-

the sunshine of the master's tuality. He made it

a habit rapidly tending to throw these perating it would be to have the

approval.

always to be in the right place two powerful and natural foes broadcast of an exciting foot view I would have given almost sult that his employers thought From a purely selfish point of at the right time, with the re- into headlong collision. The critical five minutes or a sym- the gift of punctuality. To be office, and kept enthusiastically James Stuart of Pinkle House. ball match faded out in the last anything on such occasions for him the most efficient man in the POTH name and place are royal--- high-lights of

yesterday's phony cut short in the middle unpunctual was to walk into raising his salary. Yet he did Like a king he is commemorated in despatches from the Manchukuo- of the fourth movement.

a dangerous thunderstorm. It scarcely any real work at all. stone, and a noble figure he makes may have been the more difli- He was so busy attending to his on his pedestal, with its inscription:- cult thing to do and therefore watch that he had no time for

الله

PUNCTUALITY,

like

tidiness, it must be

the more virtuous, but it was anything else, decidedly unpleasant.

after lunch-time.

PAST

JAMES STUART,

1758-1033. 54 YEARS GARDENER AT PINKIE. BORN AT BLAINSLIE, PARISH OF MELROSE. DIED 13TH MAY 1030, AGED 10 YEARS. The bust la erected at the back'

Korca-Soviet front were the Japanese reports of fierce fight- ing which was obviously sprend- ing dangerously fast along the

There are other than selfish All through life I have found reasons for being punctual, how- affected border; the neutral admitted, can degenerate into that the punctual people are the ever. Reuter story of the thunderous bad habit. After all, it is only really happy people. See them being punctual you make other There is no doubt that by a convenience, not one of the Russian bombardment directed noble virtues. Dr. Johnson and as they sail into their business people happy as

well as your- against the Japanese positions Lamb did very well without it.

offices in the morning, looking self. and the spirited reply of the With many people, I suspect world, so gay as a result of hav ally are

as if they had not a care in the Cheques that arrive punctu- of this historic mansion. From this Japanese; and, probably more it is a form of self-indulgence. ing arrived early that they can pleasure, such as we never get over the gracious expanse of per- a causo of unalloyed point of vantage he gravely surveys

his life's important than anything else, It is obviously much pleasanter scarcely settle down to work till from a dilatory, dawdling cheque. fect lawn to the old pink prunus that work, and the sight is good the summoning of Japan's War to be punctual than to be late Council and the conferences in for most things. The man who Compare with them the un- bring round the morning papers pale in hue-whites or yellows; to If postmen and the boys who every spring glows in rich benuty when the usual colours of nature are Chater Road. Tokyo of her veteran generals, arrives punctually at a play, for punctual man. What a nerve became unpunctual, what a great the left the famous sundial on the Only in matters of the highest the miseries of the late-comer bolts for his train or bus! He would ensuel I like even cooks vender bushes of immense height. example, experiences none of racked expression he has as he diminution of human happiness wall, flanked on either side by import are such conclaves called. who has to push his way to his has no joy in the sunlight. He to be punctual if they do not were, in all likelihood, planted by At no time during the Sino-stall past the angry knees of arrives in the office with a bud expect me to be punctual too.

These gunt, sweet-smelling plants Japanese hostilities has there men and women who, he realises, conscience-which been such activity among the loathe him.

is another The truth is, even the most! Through a Renaissance doorway Japanese military commanders.

Even when I was a schoolboy conscience that is doing its pro- people to be punctual. I have we are reminded of Abbotsford, name for a good conscience, a unpunctual of us like other we enter his domain, and as we survey the tablets on the high walls to school in the per work. When he sits down seen a man arriving five minutes Their inscriptions are in Latin, and dications that at last the world morning not more than five or at his desk he is in no mood.for late at a Rugby football match part of one of them reads ways is awakening to the terrible

ten minutes late, I could not light conversation. His con- which was supposed to begin at these for the honourable delight of help comparing my

of pleasantness he has laid out all danger an extensive Russo-plight with the good fortune of Werk! Work! Make up for lost match had not yet begun, he im-

unhappy science fiercely bids him "Work! three; and, finding that

body and of soul." Japanese clash may bring upon my fellow-pupils who had ar- time." And, by the time the mediately joined in the im- all nations. In London there rived punctually in their places. lunch-hour comes round he has patient stamping of the crowd in have been swift and unadver-

probably done about three times the stands and declared angrily: tised goings and comings at the Foreign Office, the Prime Minis-Russians commenced mobilisado, while the punctual sybarites the ruin of club football.

as much work as any man should that these late starts would be tor and Lord Halifax have tion in response to the Austrian hurriedly returned from their ultimatum to the Serbs. it was holidays, though they do their found impossible to stop the GRIN AND BEAR IT

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the

appear quite unextraordinary. In machines once they were under military Italy the press thunders against way, so it may well be now in Russin; and in Berlin it is this remote corner of the world. probable that diplomats of Changkufeng. It only remains Germany and Japan have dis- for Germany and Italy to move cussed the extent to which toward Japan's assistance to Germany can assist her anti- have all the major powers tear- Comintern ally in a possible war ing at cach other's throats. with the Soviot. There was The prospect numbs imagination. newspaper talk of a test of the And still there is no apparent strength of the anti-Comintern attempt at mediation, but only alliance, in which Italy, Germany the expression of the feeble and and Japan are partners. And possibly insincere hope of the

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finally, according to the Tokyo chancelleries that "the affair War Oflice, the fighting lines in can be loenlised" and will not the danger area are slowly draw involve major operations. ing nearer each other. The time Operations are already on a is rapidly approaching when the dangerously large scale; and armies there will be at close there is no "localising" a major grips. One side or the other is war. Only by the exercising of That will mean reinforcements of Japan going to win an advantage.common

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and

to

the

By Lichty

hakse ka İntent Posturo Bručionin, han

"That sort of thing gives me the thudders- always slows ma down for a couple of blocks."

him.

gardeners, is the proud record of Pinkie House: of these, two at least In 200 years only four different

were father and son.

wore the monks of Dunfermline, as The first owners of Pinkie House the site was a gift of David I, that "comfort of the sorrowing" and "best of all his kin. The original struc- ture consists of which now forms the centre of the the square tower house. Pinkle, as part of Inveresk, belonged to Dunfermline Abbey.

VI

King

In the sixteenth century Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermline, extended It greatly. As Chancellor of James had often arted as host to that Would his lovely, Il-fated mother, Queen of the Scots, ever render mare romantle

these Would she ever sweep under the lovely gardens? arched doorways with her laughing train of Marys? Was not one of these a Mary Selon?

the

"There was Mary Beaton

And Mary Seton

And Mary Carmichael, and me." A well of exceptionally cool water in the centre of the old garden was recently an Interesting And. This is now diverted to water the trim dow main of 10-day, the house's only source of water in It may have been twelfth century. The famous well in front of the mansion is ornate and covered with heraldle devices and monograms, and shows the work of an Italian sculp- tor. Ita motto, translated from the Latin is-From this fountain un- Aurpassed for coolness and purity there flows water benign alike for bead and for limbs.'

When night falls and shadows lengthen, perchance down from his pedestal deners to keep lusty nature in order. this king of gar steals For this true Stuart hates "an un- werded garden that grows to seed," and a familiar is he with this soll that he is part of it.

E. M. L