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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1939.

Stories About Dogs

WAS altting in a tramear at a terminus one morning when my companion remarked to me, "Isn't That your dog tuning racing along the road?" It was any dog all right, and it had something in its mouth.

It leaped on to the tram, and t my embarrassment deposited at my feet a suspender that I had forgotten to put on. My wife and sent it after mo per special messenger."

rier rolls over and "dies," remaining in that position with its paws in the air until the hooter stops. This per- formance in all the appearances of becoming permanent.

I happened to be in Princes Streel one day when the one o'clock gun anniet leaped went of. A litle

of

clean out of its mistress's arms and bolted Into shop, in the year which it was recovered still treni bling with fright. Needless to say. the animal was stranger to the capital.

A nelybbour of mine has an Irish terrier that has a passion for clothes- pegs. She has been able to turn this Jiking to good secount on washing day, she simply places a pile of pegs The Day's Good Deed ut one corner of the green, and it a signal from her, the dog will bring a couple of pegs in its mouth.

Similarly, when the clothes have dried, the animal takes the pegs back to the main beap, thus saving a mix- trexs a great deal of running about. Didn't Like The Lift

1 remember the Brat Hime I took To the my dog up in an elevator. surprise of myself and the attendant the creature crouched down as the ift rose and then rolled over on its hack, its eyes becoming glazed. 11 looked just like a species of doggy set-sickness. I deemed it whe to walk my day down the five lights of sinirs on the return journey.

While on holiday at a form this summer, I noticed a young dog plure its paw firmly Uport

at feeding time while it ate another Inmediately it hurt finished, i took the reserved tit-bit in its mouth and Grotted away to the kennel of an ukl blind sheep dog.

Why further veld ane list i had between fear twn silinets, and now that get about very well, the younger

always been a strong bend of friendship

older dog was bind and unable to

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Where Did Come From?

IT is over oighty years

since the Church of England · dropped the solemn commemoration of our deliverance from the Gunpowder Plot"

-by

GEORGE EDINGER

out of the Prayer-book. parishioners have been receiving The fierce sermons which ja shilling a head for listening to clergymen went on preach-him ever since Guy Fawkes ing from the pulpits on the didn't blow up Parliament.

But as a religious occasion Sunday after November 5 for nearly two centuries and "Gun-Powder Plot Sunday" Is a half only linger now in smalt inlle hear window which was certain parishes where the

terms of a special endow Iment insist on it.

took tops to eat ni every meat

An Alsatian dog saved cnusin of nine *The josing a valuable ring recently Flug-gone find been placed opened on

Tamed about a tout. It was a ground floor house, and my cousin was horrified in ser

had come through the window an nate the in-case. When she got nut-

A friend of mine has » Uttle Cuirnside, the thing had vanished. terrier that has developed an amuse Ing habit of late. If house is close to a big public works, which sounds. Thrice a hooter for a few minutes dally,

Dis erturning to her room on the verge

At the sound of its alres, Cise fer-

Don't let him see us, Mother. John's just come in

with a woman

John walked out in a fury. Honestly, child, if you don't do something about your nerves and tiredness your marriage will be

wrecked

of fears, she saw her Ainating playing sitha mezisething that gistered, mid she was overjoyed to and it was her ring. Apparently. fer pet land lifted the ring feminine just before the arrival of the thief.

H. 11. MT.

There are

few places still like the Kentish village, where the reelor gets a pound for every Gunpowder Plot sermon he preaches and forty poor

MOTHERS

Please, Mary, calm yourself. You're so Jumpy and strung up these days. I'm sure it's nothing

John's stopped loving me.

I know he has. Oh, I wish

this tiredness

of ming didn't show in my

face

Mary took Horlicks regularly every night and soon all her tired-

ness and 'nerves' had disappeared. She felt

so much stronger inside herself.

ARE OFTEN

PEACEMAKERS

MOTHER HAS AN IDEA

I wish you'd come tonight, doctor....Yes, doctor...before

[ ten o'clock ..

goodbye,doctor,

SIX WEEKS LATER

Mother and daughter are lunching together in town, when they see the daughter's husband in the same restaurant, but not alone...

THAT EVENING

Oh, John, Mary's rather upset. She saw you at lunch today...

It's this

whatcked

tiredness,

doctor,

It tells on

Well, what of it? It was the Boss's daughter, if she must know.

Oh! I'm fed up with Mary's nerves and

tears, I'll have dinner out

somewhere

From what you tell me. your trouble is Night Starvation, Mrs. Parker, You see, even during the Kight you go on using up energy in heartbeats, breathing and other even in the automatic actions. In your case this has led mornings.

to an excess of acid waste products in the' blood, causing you to wake tired, feel and look run-down,`kervy! depressed. Now, recent tests in one of our great London hospitals have proved that Horlicks is what people need,

for this. Start tonight...

I my looks

Do feel worn out, depressed and nervy?,

you

Take

K4

Darling, I could never love any woman but you. You're so full of life'

Do you even wake tired?

HORLICKS

Guard Against

NIGHT STARVATION

Then you will sleep soundly -- wako refreshed--and have extra energy all day

forgotten.

century Guy Fawkes Day was com- memorated by bonfires

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Two hundred cart-loads of were massed at the northwest corner and (now the Kingsway corner) eighty guys' could be seen fluming away at once.

But the original burning place in London was always at Temple Bar Gate, under the statue of Queen of what the Elizabeth, or, rather,

used to imagine โล Londoner's

Queen Elizabeth. It was done to the

chont.

"Your Popish plot and Smithfeld

threat.

We do not fear at all.

For lo, beneath Queen Bess's feet You fall, you fail, you fall”

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SO

DUT England still "remem-

OFTEN the excliement work- bers, remembers" the Fifth

ed to such a pitch that the of November itself, adapts it to modern usage; Bts It Into the fe of Government looked for n revolution 1938. has just been staging a back-before the morning; and not out all over. Hertfordshire with the wrongly either.

representing incentiury The Guy Fawkes burning of 1870 bonfires

i was planned to start London on a bombs.

Pint to overthrow King Charles II.

So, commemorating the fact that our enemies failed to blow up Por-In 1711, when the Tory Government was planning to make peace with latnent on a past occasion, we are

France, step fiercely resented by seeing to it that they don't manage

Intter The Whig Opposition, the to do so on a future one.

staged a monster Guy Fawkes pro- cessions tied to end in a fierce up- heaval to overthrow the Tories.

Solemn Search..

In William II's time an Arch-

Canterbury bishop of

once ani. "God grant that we nor ours never Nve to see November 5 forgotten,"

The prayer has certainly been

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the

The Yeomen answered. Guard solemnly search the cellars of Guy Faw- Parliament for hidden kuses.

The original tough guy" of 1005 who told King James that his maly. regret was that he did not manage to blow him and all his friends beck to Scotland, where he came from," has given his name to countless guys, tough and otherwise, the other side 10 all of the Atlantic as well as scarecrowlike objects, lvlug or dead, on this side of it; given our language a new word, and he caused all the freworks (there is a quarter of a million pounds' worth on the aver- age every year) that blazed about these islands from end to end.

Feeding The Fire

town,

There were torchilght processions.

Sussex 20,000 torches in 15,000 people, with two-foot squlbs In a Somerset one, and many feasts of flame, offen), 1ke the one in Suf- folk provided by the police last year on.condition that the children did not the explode any fireworks before day: and unrehearsed, like the New- enstle one, where a startled house- kokter recognised his sofa.

And that was in the Did Guy Fawkes Day tradition. In the last century every movable piece of wood.

·wns -lugged-off-for- a month before. the Fifi to feed the bonfire.

"A bit of coal for my bonfire hole,

A stick and a stake,

For King George's sake,

A stoomp or a reci,

Or else we'll steal."

Or, as unulher rhyme run:- "Give us one or we'll talce two, Better for us and worse for you."

MANY people found them-

celves ike the north country farmer In George IV.'s time who set a watch on his wood pile only to find the boys had run of with his pump for the bonfire.

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In fact, I have just been reading acuse brought by respectable person" who was kidnapped on his doorstep in London by gang of boys in 1828. They holsted him in a chair and carted him all round the neighbourhood for a guy.

And the magistrate said that "Whereas the amngging of guys had long been a practice, to amup human guy could not be lawful though he

of 710 statule against it."

"Smugging" guys was taking un effigy not your own.

knew

But sofas and pumps and re- spectable individuals are exceptions. Usually the guy has been the image of somebody not popular ut moment,

the

YOU could read our history

for the past three centuries

in the Agures of our Huys. Guy Fawkes himself ought to live a box of matches in one hand and a lon- tern in the other.

For a couple of hundred years Guy had a mitre like the Pope. Then he got a cocked hat (this was about the me that Napoleon or "Boney" be- cune the stock guy); then a paper cap because that is easy to make.

"Guy Fawkes" has been in turn Oliver Cromwell sitting on a rump steak (for the Rump of the Long Parliament), the Stuart Pretender of the time (Bonnie Prince Charlle or some other), Napoleon, Cardinul Wiseman (that was during the big anti-Catholic agitation of 1050). Nann Sahib, leader of the Indian Mutiny, President Kruger, Kaiser Wilhelm II, "Mars," "Bolshevism," "Fascism," everything you can im- ugine.

THERE were special places set uskle for the Great Buraing. In London it was some- times on Tower Hill, sometimes at the corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields, where, all through the eighteenth

Stopped Riot

A great store of guys was mus- ered, most of them priests and nuns, und "Jack Puddings sprinkling holy water" with a Pope, a Pretender, and devil the Tories were closely - their zociated with all these by opponents), to be burned together at Teingle Dir The Government pre- vented the rial by seizing the m- ages on the evening of November 4

But

shows the Incident

why, twenty years before, when William of Orange was on the sea to drive out King James 11., his advisers had told him to wait till November 5. That was the day the English people would be in the likeliest mood for driving out an unpopular king, they said, especially a Catholic one.

UY FAWKES Day" crossed

Pilgrim Fathers, and they still keep

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Bandsmen

Tales

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the "Fifth of November" in the white; wooden vilinges of New England.

But they do not call it only Fawkes' Day; they call it Pope's Day; and pumpkin lanterns (scooped out pumpkins with candles in them) ore an important part of it.

Mixed Dates

That phrase, "Pope's Day." is the key to our Guy Fawkes celebrations.

EVERY Afth of November we

carry our guys to a bonfire. But Guy Fawkes was not burned on any bonfire. He was hanged; drawn and quartered on Tower Hill. So why the burning?

The answer is, wo anniversaries have been run into one. When in

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our is not unknown among them. One of their favourite yarns is the one about the bad luck of the plecolo..PC-BCR-FNBRQCB_PJZR-LCADZ player.

An Eastern potentale once went to England, and among the various things which he admired were our One military bands. Nothing would satisfy him but to bring a band home with him, and as money was object he got his wish.

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After his return to his own country

the band played one day before him

He was so delighted and his guests. with the performance that he called his Grand Vizler and said, "Take all bandumen into the Golden these Courtyard and fill their instruments with pleces of gold as a reward for their splendid music."

This was done to the satisfaction of the players except the piccolo player, who, as it happened, was

grouter. His instrument chronic was too small to hold any coins.

The next day the band played again. It was some kind of tone poem, or other high-class music with which their employer was much dis- pleased.

He shouted to the Grand Vizi, "Drag those scoundrels into the Golden Courtyard and ram their in- struments down their throats.

The only person to whom this could be done was the poor piccolo player, so he cried out, "There you are, just my blooming kick again."

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How Many Sheep?.

A shepherd, on being asked how many sheep he had in fold, replied: "If I had as many more and half as many more and seven besides, I would have just 32. How many sheep did he have?

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More words and their synonyms

During a band rehearsal of un to-day to be paired off: Edinburgh combination some years ago the conductor was much annoyed by the wild playing of a certain sec- tion of the band,

He struck the stand violently with his baton and shouted, "Look here, you follows, this passage la supposed to represent the sighing of the sun- morning-Il's not blessed

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Millionaire Orders Cut"

If Wife

Re-Weds

MR. THOMAS RUDING DAVEY, a director of the Imperial Tobacco Company, who died a millionaire, gave instructions in his will, published recently, that if fils wife remarries she must forfelt most of her income,

He left £1,291,324, and £557,660; the use of. Wraxall Court, Wroxall,

| Somerset, estato duty has been paid.

Mr. Davey directed that during

If she remarcies, her income from widowhood his wife shall have the income from three-fifths of the the estate will be cut to £1,000 a residuo of his estate. She also has year.

1605 King James ordered the mira- culous deliverance of November 5 to be conmemorated for all time, Eug- land already had a festival day in November-November 17, the unni- versary of Queen Elizabeth's neces- Alon.

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"Now," the people said, "the per- secutors will be burned, the tyrants, the Pope." And they started burning the Pope in effigy all over burnings" England. These "Pope always happened on November 17.

And when November 5 became a festival the two dates got confused, and Guy Fawkes, himself a Catholic conspirator, was muddled up with the Pope.

SHOCK FOR GERMANS

AMSTERDAM.

NOTICES have been posted up on hoardings throughout Germany informing the people that they must income tax pay half next year's within three days.

Those who fail to pay up are liable ne of two per cent. of the tax

to a

duc.

And a ballift will visit their houses to remove belongings to the value of the tax and fine.

Employers have been ordered lend their workers money to pay the tux, which is being calculated wages earned in 1938.

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that

the

All this clearly shows Nazis, who had not reckoned with a Jung war, are suddenly faced with the necessity of taking drastic financial

measures.

The last wer cost Germany about

of £6,500,000,000,

which about £4,450,000,000 was raised by loan.

But the Nazis would find it almost impossible to raise toans to-dny.

There is little liquid money avail- able, and it would be necessary to compel people to subscribe..

In their search for new sources of decided 10 incume the Nazis have develop the State lotteries.

Advertisements are appearing in papers urging the people to try their luck In this gamble.

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