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THE W1NGUA1lt TIMES, DECEMBER 30, 1909
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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-
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PRINCIPALS.
The Hospital for
MEAT.. Sick Children
TORONTO.
iNIS APPEAL
IS TO Y01!!
REMEMBER ER That Every Sick Child
u in Ontario Whose Par-
ents Cannot Afford to Pay for Treat-
ment is Treated Free.
The Hospital for Sick Children had last
year in its'cots and beds 1,155•_patients-
383 of these were
from 267 places in
thoProvince. Sixty-
five per cent. were
children of poor
people who could
not afford to pay.
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.
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Illiaherbion, Chairman, or to Douglas
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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.
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dent to a billet.) state. of the system, such as
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"Areyou willing to take a
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"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."
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for what they have done for me."
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.aoronto, Oat.
,chill dresses his part. He wears the
hideous uniform of the middle-aged
British statesman. He eschews dan-
dyism. 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
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Without any leaning toward gener-
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fur the other fellow.
Lnekily there is some pleasure In
being an ultimate consumer, for there
is no protlt.
A ]min may be excused for feeling
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