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OTHER FELLOW'S PIGEON!

-Says Jane Quest

"Most things are not obtained, simply berause they are not attempted." says Gracian.. How true that is.

We all won this ar that, in a leisurely fashion, but we make very little effort to obtain what we want. It is easier to think about it.

WE should like to speak Innguages other than our own, but that means hard work and concen- tration. We yearn to have the gifts riches can bring us, but we won't work to obtain them. We'd rather take a ticket in a lottery and hope for the best. We want to be loved, but we will not make ourselves lovable.

We'd like to travel, see the world, but not une elgarette would we sacrifice towards it.

We want to be slim and svelte, but we like,

our good meals, and exercise bores us.

We resent growing old, but we don't cultivate

o minds. We just let them go, like some old ploughed field that, neglected, grows only weeds and uistics.

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BABY PICTURES

OOD baby pictures are casy to take indoors, with photo lights, -provided you follow a few simple rules.

Probably the chief difculty, in Indoor shots, is that your subject likes to crawl about-and thus gets away from the spot illuminated by our photo lights. There are two simple solutions for this. Either give the baby n toy to amuse him and help him "stay put," or else place him where his movements pre restricted. For example, in the crib or play pen.

Here is o simple route which -will-help you-gei-better baby pic.. tures Indoors. First, load the camera with high speed film. Pick a suitable spot for the pictures, and arrange your photo lights for a soft, diffused lighting, with no harsh Bindows. A No. 1 and a No. 2 "food" bulb in cardboard reflectors. four feet from the subject, are cor~~

for box-camera snapshots on high speed film.

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Turn on the lights before you place the baby. Put him in posi tion-give him a bright-coloured toy or one that makes a noise-and start shooting. Wind the fim im- mediately after each shot, so as to be ready for the next pose or change of expression. A whole series of good pictures can be taken

in a

a few

minutes, and the best expressions come within

will usually

that time.

Five minutes is long enough for

average

rage session of baby pictures.

the

A fast camera is an advantage in taking these pictures, Use a shutter speed of 1/50 second, with lens opening, or 1/100 second

1/8

at 1/83-and you are more sure of a sharp pleture, even if the baby moves slightly at the moment of exposure.

With a fost lens, you can also take indoor pictures by daylight or Kunlight coming through a window. The baby picture above was taken In that manner, A 1/8.3 or 1/45. lens is fast enough, if you use high speed film and a 1/25 second shut- ter speed. In the picture above, the bedspread acts as a reflector, throwing light into the shadows. This is desirable, as there should be no harsh, black shadows in a baby picture.

EVERYTHING in this world, that is worth having must be worked for, even Peace.

We all like Peace, want Peace, think we ought to have Pence,

But some of us are content to let the Other Fellow get it for us. The Other Fellow is such a

Let him fight our. convenient sort of person. battles, carry our burdens, die for us if necessary. We'd all of us like to help win the war, if we did not have to sacriflee too much. After all, that is the Other Fellow's pigeon... sacrifice.

The rest of us just alt round and wish for Peace.

**Most things are not obtained, simply because they are not altempted."

GRIN AND

BEAR IT

By Lichty

"You must be extra attentive and tender to Rufus, dear,

now that he's an expectant father!"

BEDSIDE BOOK

LL last week I was in bed with

the popular catarrh. It was

ALL

n very evil week, for I have not spent a day in bed for five years, and was not accustomed to the ignominy of it.

So I read, and I read History. There's nothing like ifistory for the dumps. History properly related reduces you to your proper sinture. You dare not complain of catarrh as you witness the Sack of Rome, the massacres of Saint Bartholo- mew, or the agonised Robespierre..

death of

ATTACKS ON SHIPPING

Bellain (ocean-going tonnage) 17,500,000 at the culbreak of war. Logs C67,000 tons.

Franes 2,533,500 tons.

Low 74,000 tons.

Norway 433,000 tons.***

Lots 108,000 inns

Kwerkrei ́1,377,040 Lant. Los 20,000 tons

Denmark 9,125,080 Cons.

Less 64,000 tons.

Holland 2.919 000 tons.

FA 81000 tons.

Greece 1,TX0,9es fans,

Germany's counter-blockade has been directed mainly at the merchani shipping of Briisin, France, Norway. Sweden, Denmark and Holland, Greece is the only other country which has had lowes on the same scale. Out of a total of 1,248,000 tons sunk, 1,132,000 belonged to these seven countries. - This total shipplag owned by them at the outbreak of the war and the proper. tion of lose (represented approxímale- ly by the part in black at the end of esch weeklon)

shown in this diagram. Following the invasion of Norway and Denmark, Germany Is attempting to selie ns, much, shilpping -

aro

I did not, however, in these days cuddle myself in horrors. I read that most noble work, John Mor ley's Cromwell, the opening volume of Gardiner's Civil War, and volume of Toynbee's magnificent but difficult Study of History,

John-Morley-is-grand. Is he for- gotten now? I don't know. In any case, his prese la superb. It is deep and solid and wise. It la and also surprisingly rhythmic human. This I had not expected.

HOW

TOW history should be written was to me also exemplified by a delightful and exciting new book '——"Archbishop Laud," by H. R. Trevor Ruper. This costa a guinea, but ask for it at your library.

Can a book about Laud be In- teresting? you ask yourself-Loud, that litle intriguing, narrow, state- serving sycophant?

It can indeed. For one thing, Laud lived in one of the most excit Ing periods of English history. The duel between Charles I and Crom- avell, between despotism and de mocracy, is being fought again in our own day.

This book is therefore extraordi- narlly apropos. Its style in good and sound, its argument exciting. You will begin it lazily and finish it excitingly.

FOUND a tile book of infinito

I churm: The Swan of Usk, of

Helen Athlon. It may be remem- bored that Helen Ashton gave, á year or twongo, a delightful rendering of the lives of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Now ahe “has dona inillie same manner a life of Henry Vaughan, the doctor and "poot of the Civil War and after.

May 21, 1940.

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BRITISH REGIMENTS

The BLACK Coldstream

WATCH

Of the many Scot- tish regiments which have served with the highest dis-

·tinction in the British Army, none can boast of a prouder record than that held by the famous Black Watch, the senior of all the Highland Regiments.

Its omcial existence dates Iro 1740, the year in which it was brought on to the British establish- ment, but it was actually farmed in 1027.

In that year, the British GovernTM

the -day decided of

to ment establish a unit of loyal High- landers who would maintain order in the north of Britain, ond six separate companies were formed. The men in these companies were the flower of

many noble Scottish families.

Ten years later, four new com- raised and amal- panles were Kamated with the existing six, the whole force being given the nume of the 42nd Foot. Later, the regi ment adopted a dark tartan for its uniform and so became known as the Black Watch after the sombre colour of the,turtan.

The courage of the Black Watch is proverbial. From its earliest days it attracted men of amazing daris full of deeds of valour.

and the ren

regiment's long record

At the battle of Fontenoy, for example, when the French defent- ed an allied force of British, Austrian and Dutch troops, the Chaplain of the Black Watch charged, with drawn sword, at the head of the regiment.

The Colonel at once intervened, and ordered the Chaplain to the

rear.

the

Dama

my commission," Chaplain replied, and raising his sword once more dashed into the thick of the fight.

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AFTER the formation of the 1st -battalion, a second was raised_in_ 1780, becoming the 73rd Regiment in 1780. This regiment discarded the kilt in 1909, but that uniform

restored when the 73rd was algamated with the 4200 Foot Itt 1081.

The red vulture plume which the The regiment wear's was won ot Geldermalsen, in 1795, when the Black Watch charged and routed French cavalry in order to rescue

that had been lost.__It_ has been sold that the red plume originated from the fact that men of the Black Watch had dipped the while feathers they wore in the blood of the enemy.

-two-

Another

with famous battle which the regiment will always be associated was that of Corunna. During the height of the struggle, that great General, Sir John More, called out to the men of the Black Walcht,

"Remember Egypt,

High- landers." The devout Scots, how- ever, were reported to have scen "the shroud of death" hovering over their leader, and soon after it fell to men of the regiment to carry him back to the rear a dying

man.

In the historie siege of Manga- ore, 200 men of the Black Watch. assisted by 1.500 sepoys, held out agains huge odds for nine months, while at the battle of Magersfon- tein General Wauchope fell load-

them into action.

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During the Great War of 1914- 1018, the Black Water suffered -- Iremendously high percentage of casualties. They raised 26 new battalions, and out of a total of 53,000 nien there Were ensualties.

34,000

* * * THEIR battle honours include Gundalope, 1799, Martinique, 1762, N. America, 1783-4, Mysore, Coruana, Toulouse, Waterloo, S. Africa, 1840-7, and 1851, 2, 3, Alma, Lucknow, Tel-el Egypt, 1882-84, Nite, 1884-5, and S. Africa, 1000-1902,

Kebir.

In the Great War they fought at the Marne, 1914 and '10, Ypres, 1914, 17 and 18. Loos, the Somme, 1910 and 10, Arras, 1017 and 10, the Hindenburg Line, and Kut el Amara, 1917.

The regiment is known through- But the British Army as the "Forty- Twas the Scottish equivalent of the "Forty Twos." The regimental marchies aro Highland Laddle" and "Blue Bonnets Over the Bor- der stirring tunes when played by the pipers.

Bonnets Over the Border** "Blue will always be associated with Ser- Reant Danici Laidlaw, the piper of Loes, who won the Victoria Cross of the most inspiring In- in one of cidents of the Great War.

With his bagpipes tucked under his arm, he marched up and down the No Man's Land of Loogunder a hell of fire-playing "Blue Bon- neh. Over the Border" while His regiment the King's Own Scottish Borderers, charged the enemy with fixed bayonets..

Guards

REFUSAL to obey a King's command is not usually a deed to be remembered with pride, but such an episode is cherish- ed with pride in the annals of the Cold- stream Guards, one of the most famous of all the regiments, in the British Army.

This regiment descends from a force mised by Cromwell in 1850, the companies comprising it being then stationed at Newcastle., The command being given to Colonel Monck, the regiment was Arst known as Colonel Morck's” Regi- ment, and Inter as the Lord Gen- eral's Begiment of Guards.

On January 1, 1800, the regiment with Monck out of marched Coldstream, village in Scotland -from-which-it derives its name, on.....

its way to London. It was to play its part in the Restoration to the English Throne of Charles II, and It was the only Puritan fool regi- ment to be kept for service in the Royal army.

When the regiment was even- tually reviewed by Charles II, his- tory has it that he commanded them to lay down their arms os a sign that they renouneed the Com- monwealth, and he then ordered. them to pick up their arms once more as his "Second Foot Guards." To a man, the regiment refused to move. They stood solidly with their arms laid on the ground be- fore them, and the King was visibly disturbed, Colonel Monck then said to him, "Sire, this re- giment refuses to be known as second to any in the Bellish Army,”–

The King immediately altered his command,

"Coldstream Guards," he declar ed "take up your arms."

came

Thus the original nome into existence, and with it the proud regimentul metto "Nulli Secundus" ("Second to None").

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AFTER Monck's death, however, the regiment came to be known as the "Queen's Regiment," and it was until 1673 that the title of not "2nd Foot or Coldstream Guards" In 1817 the. Arst was resumed. part of the title was allowed to lupse, and the regiment has been known by its present name ever since. The right to wear the bear- skin cap followed in 1830.

The regiment is now made up of three Battalions, each Battalion having its separate badges. That of the 1st Battalion shows the Star of the Gurter ensigned with the Imperial Crown, and at the base the Sphinx, superscribed "Egypt." With a slight addition, the same badge is used for the 3rd Battalion. The badge of the 2nd Battalion is nn eight-pointed star in silver within the Garter and ensigned with an Imperial Crown. At the base la the Sphinx, superscribed "Egypt."

The exploits of the Coldstream Guards are fully in keeping with their historic traditions. Among the regiment's battle honours are Tangler, 1080, Namur, 1695, Gibral- tar, 1701-5, Oudenarde, Dettingen, Waterloo, Alma, Inkerman, Sevas- topol, Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt, 1882. Modder River, and other famous engagements.

In the Great War, all the tradi- tions were fully maintained in the historie Retreat from Mont, at the Marno in 1914, the Alsnc, 1914, Ypres, 1014, and '17, Loos, the Somme, 1916 and 18, Arrus, 1918, Hazebrouck, and in the battles on the Hindenburg Linc.

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* * -AT-the---end-of-1014,-- outside- Ypres, the Coldstream Guards won Imperishable fame by holding a position,

three unrelieved, for weeks, despite the tremendous force of enemy attacks.

His Majesty King George VIth is Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment, and like the other regiments in the Brigade of Guards the Coldstream Gunnis have a particularly close Nsociation with Royalty,

The Coldstream Guarde can be other distbiguished

from the Guards' regiments in several ways. The Coldstream bearskin cap has a red plume attached, while the but- tons of The Coldstream uniform are grower in was The band Tuand- the ordinary.cap is white..

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