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74;e4°' spring eiequing time-. has
• Pline ani gone, and once more my
• be* shelves, stands, 'and Ilexes Of
magazines, drawers and shelves of
n,Otebooks have bad **X going over..
post . bad, aeeplaulated here ad
there, bUt there: are ne more &la -
webs. The habit of referring to
OA and. roolging .14? the other is
liatiseeus and interfering with the
average spiderf Like some fan-
atical Soviet, that spider 'will label
Me as an aggressor ou territory
he has his eye foeused, wen. He
likes to blame me, fer keeping the
pot boiling in a bubbling world, or
as a cursed, enemy of the undis-
turbed tranquility of things. Spiders
lusting for the blood and carelLs_sets
, of flies think that their net work
of intriguing line gossamer strands
in likely corners is the thing to
410; and who dares tO complain?
• But there are householders who
• „act tin sucha way with cleaning
methods that rid both 1I and
spider from their obnoxious doing
and spreading. Blessed be the
• duster and broom! 'Hurrah for
• cleaning fluids and a thorougif"di's-
turbance that comes, at least °need
year, when books, papers, shelves
and, cupboards, chests and boxes,
walls and windows, become for a
little time like Displaced Persons
inspected, quizzed and reviewed,
their uses and measure tested, and
a new • place' given as satisfaction
' 'becomes apparent
There is one happy thing about
this spring cleaning: Things turn
• up you had lost.for weeks on end.
. Cuttings—you •had saved and 'put
iiActity and forgotten now appe
Rooks', with 'pages turned down dt
most, interesting pages, are redis-
covered, Many in the peek into.
• this volume and that. Paragraphs
underlined are given attention. One
becomes so engrossed that the • Di-
visional ,Commander of this. _house-.
*kid warfare •on dust and dirt,
call to the -one reading a paragraph
ora page, to "Get on with the job."
:Now, for instance,- who likes, to
be forcibly taken to tao
sk while nce
more going over some paragraphs,
• penned by Ruskin, with "a, penso
keenly valiant in-attaek, so eloquent
with praise, so swift with under-,
Standing • and compassion". — but
•• alas! silent for ever; yet having
written some things that will .never
•, die. - ggr'example, here is what he
. :writing his tator's epitaph at
twenty,after taking Greek lessons
With him, declaring him "An Eng-
lishman of the olden time, humane
without weaknesS, learned without
ostentation, witty without malice°,
wise without pride, honest of heart,.
lofty of thought, dear to his fellow
men and dutiful to'God." • •
This biography, ,"Ruskin • the
• Great Victorian,'" was handled this
spring with an affectionate 'linger-
ing touch.over 'such 4 paragraph as
thatjust quoted, and this beautiful
• tribute to a friend: "There is no-
one like you among all my friends,
• and I have many, and niany sweet
•ones, .axid- some who love me very
• :
raUch; but X nal: never ..et known
• anything like fthe flowing river of
kindness, deep, and soft, and swift;
all at onee, thatyou have unsealed
for we. You hale interpreted more
o ChriStianity to me than I have
learned OIT all my teitellerS', even
of the,hill and,
Friendship like th,at attracts us
by its beauty an,d splendor. It Is
want more than a pause with the
duster in hand,' and facing' the
immediate ask to put shelves of
volumes in orderly arrangement, to
• allowit few minutes on an under -
tined paragraph like that.
Fulton Oursler's, beautiful book
on the life of our Lord, 'The Great-
est Sttiry Ever Told," was put back
in t prominent place, and handled
affectionately in so doing, 'because
of the hours - of the late winter
that were filled with pleasure and
delight by its gripping reading. I
amnot one with a critic, "sceptical
one she must have' been, Who, after
its publication in Serial form in fill
lOnglish magazine,wrote to the,
editor- and complained; "Perhaps
. shall be the only one .wht4 has
• written to say that I think it was
not really the type of story to see
in your paper, and that it lasted
• too long. . . I think you Will lose
readers if you continue on ' these
lines." I almost 'clapped nay hands
'ivhen 1 read the editor's reply.:
"Besides this letter we have re-
ceived only two, both un.signed let-
ters, from readets who did not
enjoy The Greatest Story Ever Told.
Ia contrast we have received seven
thousand letters from people who
feel as we do, that Fulton Outsler's
beautiful story has an important
message for us all in these troubled
• time"
Of course, one became absorbed
in a Geographical Magazine at the
place whereit, read that "Richard
the Lionheart, crowned king in 1189,
was the king, who never stayed
dt home long. In nearly ten years
of his reign _his -longest _stay_An
England was only from March,
-/t9+,--arntil----lthey of the-swine-yeais
And there was no, New Zealand
then to attragt Monarch's visit
and to afford His Majesty a. .peek
at the world .down :under. And
there was no America and Canada,
such as we know, to act As •a
magnet, 'flier royal travellers.' The
Lionheart did not stage the Festival.
ef Iiritain .0 s we do in this
twentieth centory. , Old Father
Thames must • have been a mere
starting' point for going places that
we're far removed from the English
shore, and not a placa to make
a world festival •In which mind
and interest could revel. • That
soldier king of the twelfth century
revered his churches, ,but only as
they started him on crusades that
took hith away from abbey and
cathedral, palace and . parish, to
fight and shed blood for Palestin-
ian relics.
We read Signiondi'S•taivraisal of
Richard 'with much interest again,
seated on a .cushion. On the tioor,
book in hand: "He was a bad 'Son,
father, husband; • king. ,He ' was
honest abolit bis ViSe,s 'tind admitted
that pride, • rapacity and luxury•
'7777 .
wee 1116, three dargbierS."
Vliat U.se ISA te (UAW attention
te this to, a wire`itrMed With .4
broom and directing cleaning pper-•
ations4j and aboutZ 'We house?
She cleclahus about what she says
IS waste of Wile in the middle
of all this house disorderliness; and
Is lust -apt to say that if one does
not wish to belabelled thesame
way as a bad father, husbandand
king a this domestic common-
wealth—"Why, get on with this
study -cleaning job!"
, One could offer for the Lost and
Found Office a few insertions after
this spring eleaning time. The
old and once useful pair of glasses
turned up;.. pencils and, fountain
pens that bad been 'put away for
renewed use on occasion, even a
disearde,d set of false teeth that
had bei relegated to a drawer and
,10;ig fOrgetten., grAtierti, enVeiepe
openers that 001fici, ,not be found,
have all tUrned iff) With: Other Use-
ful. things around a desk, as 'cut;
worn* do every Spring 1i the
garden. ready to do their stunt,
'Mtn() discarded glasses and oh-
selete teeth, which the wife says
are about the silliest kind of Junk
to hoard, are articles that...are a
problent and at a" ththn jn Eng,
land, where people are discussing
them with a„ vim and the demand
tharthey shall share with the -state
in providing' half the cost.' I
wonder' If the 'Chancellor of the
Exchequer Would welcome a great
conSignment of unused Speetacles
and Sets of artificial teeth to help
the remedies of a sight -seeking and
chewing puhlie withtheir ev,PrY--
day woes and needs. 'Big if I con -
Ahmed on this line I •shall be the
target of thoge who' read with, "Shut
op:" er '4`Why, doesn't he turn Pie
Mal off?!' •
Yeparden. if I have been hoX-
ing. eWe IVICOlung in one of her
cbarming coluMus told about -a
man whom R. E. Knowles knew
and spoke a to, hits wife, "That
man of your can do a lot of
washing in a Yery few suds." That
reference may be applis4 to me.
Who „knows?
kat.
GOOD Ulm
A man had barely paid off the
mertgage. on his house when *he
mortgaged it again to 'buy a 'nevv
car. Then he sought out a loan
broker .to try to iborrow money on
•the ear so he eeuld build a garage.
"If I do make yon the loan,"-
• asked . the. brqker, "how will you
•buy gas for the ear?"
"It seems -to tne,"the man replied
0.0111".
,
wtth dignity, "that ifellow Whe
owns his own house, ear? and garage
should be able to .g0 credit for
gas." „
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