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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1909-12-30, Page 3r THE W1NGUA1lt TIMES, DECEMBER 30, 1909 A MAN WITH A FUTURE • The Modem Method of Bop( is to be sure of highest quality value by insisting on getting JAMES DOUGLAS DISCUSSES HON. WINSTON. CHURCHILL. He Os a Nervous. Young Man, With Wonderful Fingers That Writhe and Twine as He Talks -He Lisps and Stutters But Talks Like a God -Even the Oldest In the House Listen Attentively, I am more keenly interested in per- sonalities than polities, and therefore I am more }leartily interested in Mr. Winston Churchill than in many other politicians, writes James Douglas, the London journalist. There are many clever men in the House of Commons, but not one of them stings you with the romantic excitement of adventur- ous ambition. It is an age of ability, rather than an ago of genius. Most of the flaming figures are past the cli- macteric of peril. Mr. Churchill alone tingles with a dramatic future. Clothes are the man, and Mr. Chur- ii • Says the Miller : "'Mr, and Mrs. Grocerwere down to my place for Sunday dinner awhile, back -and wh:,t do you think I We had a wishing contest --to see who could wish for the most delicious and whole- some eatable. We all closed our eyes and wished. And behold, 'f we didn't all four of us wish for the same thing. Buns and Bread made of `Cream of the West' Flour t:o we he'd'em-my wife always has 'em ready, because they're in demand at our house." A " Model Mill" product. The Campbell Milling Company, Limited, Toronto. Canada FOR SALE BY KERR & BIRD, WINGHAM. great is H:!ntrs ,and -.�. Trappers. WILL GET THE; Ea st W earket Price, Honest Treatment, Correct Assortment, Quick Returns. by shipping their Faw Furs and Skins TO e, 'il11.4L,fl11 FRERES enTA3LISHEa W23 the old reliable Firni of the Fur Trade, 134 and i36 ricGili St Montreal, Ask forcer Free 19094910 Price List, 1'A;: EXTRET,SS CFrARG$s, tee,.,.-._-..�.....,.,,. 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Since its organiza- tion the Institution ergo Crus FOOT Deals has treated 15,613 IN PLASTER. children ; 11,550 of these unable to pay and were treated free. 1f you know of any child in your neighborhood w h o sick or has any deformity send the name of the parent to the Secretary. The Hospital for Sick Children is not a local but a great Provincial Charity for the sick child of the poor man in any e0INti IioMS IN AWE= r part of Ontario has same claim upon its help as the child who lives within the shadow of its walls in Toronto. There were 69 eases of Club Feet treated i MAssAarNo A PATIENT. the Hospi- tal last year and 67 had perfect correction. narcotic A TElt Dusk think of it -Your money can help tie hospital to do the good work of Oraightrining the crooked limbs and club heir of little children. Picric help us. "town Send Contributions to .1. floils Illiaherbion, Chairman, or to Douglas laaar'ldeon, saal.-Treats., The lffoapdted Seto Mak Children, collage •t•,Toronto. THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN. Something Said to Him by the Dentist Sets Him Thanking. "My dentist tells me," said the mid- dle-aged man, "that my teeth will last as long as I do, and when he said that to me 1 was at first pleased,' because then it scorned to mean simply that I still had pretty good teeth, good for a long time yet, and 1 thought that some day I would say to him, sort of half jokingly : " `Doctor, you tell me my teeth will last as long as I will. About how long do you think my teeth will last?" "In that way, you see, by indirec- tion I ata going to get a line on how muchb longer he thought I was Iikely to live, and as I thought that over I smiled to myself, thinking that was a pretty bright idea. But do you know that when I came to think it over again I didn't ask him finally. I didn't. Because I think he knows. I have been going to hint now for years, and he knows 'my teeth through and through Ile knows by Ahem how old T am, and he knows their rate of wear exactly and how much longer they will last, and he could tell me how much longer 1 will last. But I haven't asked 'him because I don't want to know. I don't want to know at all. "As a matter of fact; I think that when we come to my time of life we don't much fancy dwelling en that, though there are tines when it seems to intrude itself, when we realize that the yea rs ahead of us are not so many as -well, as they were some years ago, when life seemed to us interminable. Any actuary could tell us what our expectation of life may be et the pres- ent moment. "We expect, of course, that we are going to live longer, to be the exception, but even if we should so prove we can count the years still coming to us without using many fig- ures. We are getting to where we can see the end if we look that way, and I can't say that I have any fear of it, hut I certainly don't find any pleasure in contemplating it. I'd rath- er stay. "So I haven't asked the dentist be- cause I don't want to know. The thought of it does drift in on me once in awhile, but when it does 1 shunt it off and get busy and keep plugging and take a cheerful view. "I'm glad my teeth are good any- how," Women Poets of •France. Recent statistics 1t D n France show that there are 300 poetesses in that country,aswell a G 30 women fashion writersand 1,500 women novelists. There ere also 300 feminine writers on educational matters, while sixty 1 -omen are enrolled on the list of the Society of Dramatic Authors. A woman (Breetts Les Nouvelles, a seri- ous daily paper published in Paris. In England woman printers are do- ing excellent work. The suffragettes have all their circulars, pamphlets, official organs and cards printed by a firm of woolen who run their business on the co-operative scheme and are making money and a reputation for creditable - results at moderate prices. A woman's club run entirely by women is one of the most successful clubs in London. It bas invested its surplus money in good paying stock and can boast of having a sounder financial basis than nine -tenths of the London clubs. It is called the Pioneer and numbers among its members chiefly woman journalists, authors and artists. Dancing by Halves, "At a dance the other night I met the most popular girl I ever saw," said a Harlem baehelor. "I asked her to dance. She said she would like to, but she had only half a dance left. If I was willing to take that, all right. "It was a new experience to share one dance with a rival, but I agreed to her terms. I thought up to the last minute that she was fooling, but when my part of the waltz was done -she put me down for the first half she glided away from me and sailed off • in the arms of the other chap, who had been standing around await- ing his opportunity. "That is what I call popularity raised to its very highest power.' What Makes Electricity? Lots of other people would like to know what makes electricity, but no- bdtly does know it. We know a good ninny things about electricity, just as we know a good many things about life. But we do not know what makes the difference between a dead tree and a live tree, although we know the ' difference perfectly. Just so we know it is dangerous to touch what we call a electricity wire,"becausey is passing through it, but we do not know what electricity is. We know do 'and rfu - electricityw e 1 'il.e how to In, thingsfor us,but we ,do not know what "makes electricity'." The Waiter's Fate. The waiter had been very inatten• live, 13till the man tipped him. The waiter walked off without thanking but). The man shrugged his should' ers resignedly. "The only thing to do with these waiters," he explained, "is to leave them to their fate. They get a bigger percentage on what's sold than the boss does. ff. they are energetic in robbing Lim and supplicating tips they eventually become boss. Then they get all that's coming to them. They get cursed, anathematized, backbitten and robbed." Repaid. 1orke-Your daughter's musical education must have Cost a lot , 01 money? De Porke-Yes, it did, but I've got it nil back. Tnrke-Indeed ! Ile Porke-Yes. I'd been trying to buy the house next door .for years, and they wouldn't sell. But since she's conte home they've sold it to me for half price. Shawl of Cat's Hair. A wonderful shawl is possessed by the Duchess of Northumberland. It (nee belonged to Charles X. of France, and was made entirely from the fur of Persian cats. Although the shawl eight feet square, it is of such fine textures that it can be compressed rote an ordinary coffee cup. Sick Headache and relieve all the troubles incl. dent to a billet.) state. of the system, such as Dizziness, Nancea, Drowsiness, Distress atter eating,Pain in the'Side„ a. While their moat remakable success has been shown in curing m! Y: Headache, yet Carter's Little Liver Pills aro equally valuable in constipation, curing and pre- venting this annoyingcomppla nt, while they also correct ail disorders of the stomach, stimu,atethe liver and regulate the bowels. liven if theyonly cared E Ache they wonldbeaka ostpriceless tothoeo who suffer 1 rom this d stressing complaint; but forte• nal' tl the r goodness n y 8 a ctend ltere andthoso who once try them will find tt rete little pills vain. able in so many wave thut they trill not be wil- ling to do withoutthem. Bat after allsick head Is the bane of so many lives that hero is where we make our great boast.' Our pills cureit while others do not. Carter's Little Liver Pills are very small and very easy to t:.kc. One or two pills make a dose. They aro strictly vegetable and do not gripe or purge, but by their gentle action please all who use them. onus MEDICI= 00.. USW Yob& Small Small !voce. Small Priya„ Needed Corroboration. "Areyou willing to take a glt£aii"r "Tender certain conditions." "Indeed! What conditions"-' elf its references are setislti fttCbot>W'- Obvious. Do those who'd pay the tax :begrudg 1t And long to rise and kin The bally, blooming British budget? Will water run down hill? Sacked Up. "How would you feel in a sleeping bag?" "Like the salt of the earth." MILBURN'S LAX A -LI VER PILLS Stimulate the Sluggish Liver. 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His frock coat is severely pompous and his black cravat is gravely austere. His collar is solemn- ly respectable, and its vast ears are beginning to glory in the Gladstonian tradition. He begs a humble colleague to fetch him a glass of water like an old Parliamentary hand. His mien is not merely important; it is majestic. Sir William Harcourt himself in his ripest fame did not wheel round to invoke the cheers of his legions with more splendid assurance. Even Glad- stone did not lauirch a more piercing glance of challenge at the leader of the Opposition. Nor was Disraeli less burdened with superfluous Modesty or exaggerated diffidence. His superb aplomb is native, not assumed. He has the gift of spontaneous superior, ity, and natural domination. He can patronize bald veterans without an ef- fort, and accept silver -haired homage without a smile. He groups famous men round his eloquence as if he were inured to adulation, and yet he is always greater than his setting. The very Sergeant -at -Arms becomes his acolyte, and the Mace his sceptre. He even contrives with a delicate flicker of his cold blue eye to suggest that the Speaker, is not, like himself, a survival of the fittest, and the House laughs with scandalized awe at the audacity of an innuendo which is only a gesture. His physique is that of a neurotic athlete. He is all nerves and vigor. His frame is as lean and lithe as Mr. Chamberlain's, with something of. the same impassioned intensity of vigil- ance and sharp alertness of ear and eye. But it is prematurely bent and bowed, and the square, ugly shoulders tell a tale of laborious hours, which is confirmed by the thinned brown hair, the bald brow and temples, the wide parting, and the white patch on the crown. The face, too, has shak- en off the hesitating contours of youth, and settled itself into a granite fixity. It is a square • face, all battlomented brows and walled jaws, heavy angles and salients, with a portcullis mouth, and a nose Iike a tower. When the hard mouth melts into a humorous smile the lovable boyish side of his nature is visible. But • this is rare. His voice is erratic. He lisps over every sibilant, and I am sure he could not say "Shibboleth." His lisp is part of his neurotic temperament. It will be known as the Winston lisp, like the Gladstone collar, 'the Disraeli curl, and the Chamberlain eyeglass. He also possesses a fine stammer. The Winston stammer will be popular. But not every stripling can lisp him- self into notoriety and stutter nimself into fame, The nervous passion of the man is visible not only in his neurotic' hair, in his neurotic lisp, and in his neuro- tic stammer. It plays in his neurotic hands. I used to go to see Duse sole- ly_ for the'.,pleasure of watching her beautiful hands. This afternoon 1 watch the nervous hands of our young Chatham. I forget the cascade of oratory that is tumbling out of his mouth as 1 looI: down on the dramatic fingering of his fingers. They are long, thin, white, supple, restless ten- tacles. They coil round each other in an interlaced passion. They flicker in the nit, flinging electrical meta- phors over the absorbed faces that are fixed in an enchanted silence. They are the fingers of a violinist, and they seem to draw music out of the six hundred human strings of Westminster. Now they caress and cajole, now they close in sudden men- ace, now they throttle and strangle, now they mock and deride. It may be fantasy, but it seems at times that these subtle fingers sweep over the spellbound Parliament as the fingers of a lyrist sweep over a lyre. But stranger than neurotic hair, neurotic lisp, neurotic stammer, neu- rotic fingers, is the neurotic flesh. Lite has drained it of color, and left it a dead, cadaverous white. Its waxen pallor is ghostly in the sad neutral light, but behind the bloodless parch- ment glows a steady radiance of im- passioned energy, like fire in a blad- der. This luniinous strength flames in the tired face. It is more than will and intellect.. It is lambent imag- ination leaping along the nerves into the mobile features. It is a confla- gration of personality, the soul in ac- tion, a spiritual thunderstorm, a char- ged cloud stabbing the Parliamentary sky with electric flashes. Members and Ministers, peers and journalists, financiers and ambassadors, lawyers and soldiers, rigidly watch the bril- liant fulgurations flame and fade. And by a prank of irony I find my eye fix- ed upon the gold stud that fastens the. back of the rhetorician's collar to his shirt. 1t seems to knot and knit it the dramatic scene into unity., The last time I saw Gladstone was on that fateful night when he threw down his gaunt?idt for the last tinfe to the Blouse oCa,}Inds. The only thing that stuck in my memory was the black silk bows eta his t,veeing pumps. So tll's Altai -moil 1: go'away brooding over i'.e untidy collar. stud on the nape of Winstll:t Chi chill's neck, PITIFUL IGNORANCE. rili1OUGFl everybody else is wise And painfully aware That there is basis for the claim And something in the air,. The trust itself is Innocent; Confess to that it tnust. Whatever else it:>understands, It won't know it's a trust. At the suggestion that perhaps it's running a combine A sad expression slowly flits Across Its face benign. it roses ,piously its hands That are not stained by toil As though from anything like that In horror to recoil. It may own ninety-nine per cent Of everything in sight Connected with its line of trade And have the lid on tight, But still that little one per cent Appears unto its eyes Like competition strong and keen That one should not despise, Oh, yes, the trusts are innocent! We get that knowledge straight. it corns to us direct frdm them And so is up to date. But every person must admit Who will his eyes believe The imitation they put up An expert might deceive. Quite.. Uncertain. "1 wonder how old she is." "I really could not say." "But you have known her all ber life," "Oh, she was born thirty-five years ago, but that may not have any bearing on the subject." Pardonabi'e Error. • There was great excitement on Mars as the earth drew near. Astronomers bad their eyes glued to the telescopes like postage stamps to love letters, and their meals were fed to them by sub- cutaneous injections. Excited crowds outside were gath- ered around the bulletin board, which had just announced that the earth had several thousand satellites in addition to the one big moon -either that, it was stated, or else the earth people were able to pick up their houses and walk. Just then Professor Zazazaza, who had been snatching a few hours' sleep, woke up, 'turned his trailed eye on the earth and informed the waiting crowds that the women of the earth wore vats- four times as large as them- selves, which had led to the curious mistake. Had Him Located. "AU is lost," said the discouraged politician, "but honor." "What is that?" said the deaf man who had a way of hearing part of what was said and jumping at the rest. "His honor lost? No: that can't be! I had a drink with him in a sa- loon around the corner just a few min- utes ago." Fair In War. "Do you think George Washington ever told a lie?" "Certainly not." "Never?" "Well, he may have told a few white lies to the red men during the colonial wars." Turn About. "I hope you do not begrudge inc a meal," said the tattered wanderer. "Certainly not." replied the gener- ous householder. "and 1 hope you wouldn't begrudge my dog one if you were to come a step farther."' Suggests Prosperity. "Wby is it that all actors, whether great or small, always want to play Hamlet?" "Let's see. Isn't that the show in which the ghost walks?" Light Headed. "1f I had a pistol 1 would blow out my brains." "Don't take a pistol." "Why not?" "Use a feather duster." 'Two Models. "When he was building his airship i suppose he spent a good deal of time watetrling the birds fly." "Yes, but he spent more watching money 8y." certainly. "1 do hate to wait fpr a train." "I es, so do 1. but t hate still more to have a train not wait for me." PERT PARAGRAPhS. As for the past. with many about the most successful thing that It ever dill was to get by. Without any leaning toward gener- osity we all like to see strict lustiee fur the other fellow. Lnekily there is some pleasure In being an ultimate consumer, for there is no protlt. 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