HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1919-10-16, Page 7HOOD'S 'SONG
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THRICE REJECTED BY LONDON
NEWSPAPER.
Finally Accepted, by "Punch" znd
"Went Through the Land
Like Wildfire."
Fele poet -overs but are familiar
with Thomas Hood's song to the toil-
er, "The Song of the Shirt," which has
been translated • into more foreign
languages than any other poem writ-
tOpoolrY Hood. This poem was first
printed in the London Punch on De-
cember 16, 1843, and created a sensa-
tion in London, and it was soon re-
printed throughout the British Empire,
and shortly thereafter it was repro-
duced practically throughout the
world,
Good Living."
There is quite a story connected
with Hood's composition of the "Song
of the Shirt." On October 25 it was
brought to the attention of the pont
that a wretched woman named Rid-
dell was charged at the Lambeth
police station with having pawned
articles belonging to her employer. It
was shown that she made trousers
for seven pence a pair, and the utmost
she could make was seven shillings a
week, which her employer looked
on as "a good living for' a woman who
had herself and two infant children to
support."
This case attracted a great deal of
attention at the time, and 'two days
later the London Times had a power-
ful editorial on the incident, Punch
quoted from this "leader" with sting-
ing additions—probably by Douglas
Jorrold—the following week, Hood,
whose sympathic were stirred by suf-
fering, penned his "Song of the Shirt"
and sent it to Punch, his wife saying
as the package was done up: "Now
mind, Iloocl, mark niy words, this will
tell wonderfully! It is one of the best
things you ever did!"
Wife's Faith Justified.
Mark Lemon, who was at the time
the editor of Punch, recalling the re-
ceipt of the manuscript in later years,
said that the author accompanied it
h a note, saying that the lines had
already been rejected by three papers;
that he feared it was not suited' to
Puuch, and leaving it to Lemon's dis-
cretion whether to put it in the paper
or in the waste basket.
The confidence of Hood's wife in
"The Song of the Shirt" was justified.
The poem in Punch Created a sensa-
tion. It was copied in The Times and
., other journals, and as M. H. Sliiel-
et mann has put it, in sympathetic ap-
preciation of Hood as a contributor to
Punch, it "went through the land like
wildfire."
The historian of Punch claims that
the publication of "The Song of the
Shirt" trebled the circulation of that
journal. It may be said also to have
trebled Hood's fame and popularity at
the time.
Facts.
Anti-aircraft gun defences employ-
ed 717 officers and 11,948 men at the
signing of the armistice.
, Shirts cost $175 in Petrograd, while
as much as $1,000 will be given for a
re -made pair of trousers.
French authorities estimate that 1
in every 30 of the Allied soldiers who
entered that country married a French
,bride. '
Germany's population has been es-
timated at as low as 57,000,000, as
compared with nearly 65,000,000 be-
fore the war.
London roads are being repaired,
after years of neglect, and old wood
blocks, in great demand as firewood,
fetch $15 a cartload.
The Military Intelligence Depart-
ment of the British Army in July, 1914,
was 103 strong of all ranks; in
November, 1918, it had grown to
5,969.
"Tin hats," which are being sold
off by the Government, are being con-
verted into wash -basins, flower -pots,
cake -stands, ash -trays, and fish -bowls.
Films taken on the battlefields have
already brought the British Govern-
...Rent
overn-
ment over $355,000, a large portion of
' hich has been given to war charities.
German trains will not be heated" or
lighted in the coming winter, It is
stated, owing to coal shortage, while
all express trains will be abolished.
Mournful Outlook.
"I engaged the rooms for my holi-
day," he said, "because the landlady
wrote me that they overlooked a
superb garden of 200 acres, richly
adorned with statuary, where I was at
liberty to promenade."
"Well?" his friend inquired.
"It was a cemetery," he said, bit-
terly.
Very Slow to Grow.
After growing for 10 years, the
Japanese cypress, one of the smallest
specimens of the horticultural world,'
reaches the size of a golf ball. As if
exhausted with this tremendous ef-
fort, the next 10 years see it increase
only by a fraction, when it practically
stops growing altogther.
In China when a pupil is reciting
his lesson he turns his back to his
teacher.
There is a great advantage in plow-
ing in the fall where possible. The
period for plowing preparation and
sowing ill the spring is short, and
plowing is the operation that require
niotg; *et
,
itMe Newest Blouses
"Here's my idea of
a razor—
one
azor°—_
one that sharpens its own blades"
"Why, 1 remember'•
when Z used to have to
throw away a blade
after a couple a£ shaves.
Now, f simply take it
and give a few turns on
the strop and it's as
good as ever.
"i can shave in three minutes
and my face is as smooth and
slick and comfortable as when
the head barber used to go
over it. To clean, I simply.
put the blade under the tap
and wipe it off. There's no
taking the razor to pieces and
messing around with .parts.
In fact, the whole thing is so
simple and easy, I wish I had
had one long ago."
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The Vanishing Lake,
Near Valdosta, in Georgia, there is
a lake three miles long and three-
quarters et a mile wide, with an aver-
age depth of twelve feet of water,
which disappears every three or four
years and thencomes back again. It
disappears into natural subterranean
passages, taking two or three weeks
in the process and leaving a beautiful
sandy basin. After a month or so the
water begins to dome back, and in a
couple of weeks it is the same old
lake.
MONEY ORDERS.
When ordering goods by mail send
a Dominion Express Money Order.
It is estifhated that there are 126,-
'000 more cattle in the United King-
dom now than in 1014; sheep, however,
show a decline in numbers of upwards
of 900,000.
9082
No. 9086—Ladies'Russian Blouse.
Price, 20 cents.
With or without bands, two styles
of sleeve: Cut in 8 sizes, 34 to 48 ins.
bust. Size 36, with bands, 2% yds.
36 ins. wide, or 21,4, yds. 40 ins. wide;
without bands, 1% yds. 36 ins. wide,
or 1% yds. 45 fins. wide. -
9087—Waist. Sizes 34 to 48. Price, 20
cents.
No. 9082 -Ladies' Cossack Blouse.
Price,20 cents.
Body and sleeve in. one.' Cut in 7
sizes, 34 to 46 ins. bust. - Size 36, with
gathered sleeves, 2% yds. 36 ins. wide,
or 2% yds. 40 ins. wide; with bell
sleeves, 21/ yds. 36 ins. wide, or 21A
yds, 40 ins, wide; ribbon for sash, 2
yds.
These patterns may be obtained
from) y sur local McCall dealer, or
from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St.,
Toronto, Department W.
Work is the best solace for sorrow;
work is the best soother for distracted
nerves; work is the sole corrective for
the ills of mankind.—Sir Robert
Horne. -
The science of bell casting has been
practiced in one English foundry for
nearly 350 years.
The George Who Did It
"1 watched Lloyd George fill prac-
tically every post of high distinction
within the bestowal of the British gov-
elment during the war," says Mr.
Isaac F. Marcosson in an interesting
account of his interviews and ex-
periences with the wonderful little
Welshman who is England's premier.
"Often when figuratively I saw the
flag of distress hung out, heard the
alarm bells ring and felt the heart of
Britain turn to him for leadership in
her hour of peril and crisis, I realized
that the American phrase, 'Let George
do it,' fitted him and his astonishing
service better than anything else. I
once told him about this expression,
and he was amused and pleased."
No doubt. And if Mr. Marcosson had
chanced to quote the phrase, with a
similar complimentary application—
as he might almost as aptly and ap-
propriately have done—to M. Ciemen-
ceau, the George who has served
France so long and so remarkably,
that wise and gallant old statesman
would also have been. amused. Per-
haps—since he knows America bet-
ter than Mr. Lloyd George does—he
may have heard the phrase; but
quite certainly, in any case, he would
know that it originated in his own
country, and that the George who
originally "did it" had lain at rest be-
neath his magnificent tomb in Rouen
Cathedral a full century before Ameri-
ca was settled. ,He was the famous
Cardinal Archbishop Georges d'Am-
boise, pride minister of King Louis
ZII,
A courtier from childhood, a bishop
at fourteen, a conspirator with princes,
a prisoner for two years, a reformer
of legal procedure, army discipline and
taxes, a counselor of generals and
kings and an aspirant for the papacy,
the fifty years of his life were crowd-
ed with wide and various achieve-
ments. The peneficenee of the re-
forms he promoted caused Louis to be
called "the Father of his People," al-
though the credit for them belonged
chiefly to his minister, who was called
"the tongue and soul of the king."
Sometimes, when troublesome af-
fairs were presented for decision, the
king would say neither yes nor no, but
instead:
"Let George do it. He is a man of
experience,". and "George," the invalu-
able churchman, statesman and friend,
would do it.
Georges d'Amboise, Cardinal of
Rouen, was, in his prime and pride, a
man of high ambition; but as he lay
dying, attended often by his sovereign,
and oftener by a humble brother of
the monastery, it was not to King
Louis that he addressed the words so
often quoted:
"Ah, Brother John! If only I could
have remained Brother John!"
That was in 1510. So it is a long
four centuries back that slangy
Americans of an inquiring turn of mind
must go to find out who was George
and what he did.
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The .Belfries,
If you should go to La Basses
Or 13ethune, greyand bare,
You'll hear the sweetest bells that pia
A faint and chiming air;
And belfries in each little town
Sing out -the hour and mark it down.
If you should go to La 13assee
Or walls the Bethune street,
You'll see the lorries passqllat way
And hear the tramp of feet;
And where the road with trees is
lined
You'll watch the long battalions wind
But all the clocks that mark the time
Are rnoaths .and years too slow,
And all the bells that ring and chime
Strike hears of long ago,
Aucl ail the uelfries where you pass.
Lie tumbled in elle dust and grass.
Yet still the long `battalions wind,
Though 11.11the men are gone,
Because one hour bus stayed. behind
And wanders there alone—
Yes, one heroic shining hour
Chimes on from every fallen tower.
DREADED INFLUENZA
Medical Men Believe it Will
Again Visit Canada This
Autumn and Winter.
There is a widespread belief among
medical men that the epidemic of Ia
grippe, or influenza, which swept over
the world last year, will again appear
in Canada,during this autumn and
coming witer. This dangerous trou-
ble spares neither age nor sex, but it
naturally finds its easiest victims
among those who are run down in
health, or those whose blood is weak
and wetery, and it is among the latter
class in which the greatest number of
fatalities occur. The surest way to
prevent an' attack of this dreaded
trouble is to keep the blood rich and
pure, and the safest and best way to
do this is through the use of Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills.
No reasonable precaution to avert
an attack of influenza or la grippe
should be spared, The disease itself
is deadly, but its after-effects, among
thoseho are spared, make p ed, the life
of the victim one of constant misery.
Ask almost any of those who have
been attacked by influenza what their
present condition of health is and
most of them will answer: "Since I
had the influenza I have never been
fully well." This trouble leaves be-
hind it a persistent weakness of the
limbs, shortness of breath, bad diges-
tion, palpitation of the heart, and a
tired feeling after even slight exer-
tion. JThis is due to the thin -blooded
condition in which la grippe almost
always leaves its victims after the
fever and influenza have subsided.
They are at the mercy of relapses and
complications, often very serious.
This condition will continue until the
blood is built up again, and for the
purpose of building up the blood and
strengthenikig the nerves nothing can
equal a fair' treatment with Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills. From first to' last
dose these pills make new, rich blood,
which reeebee everet everorgan and nerve
in the noel . Thus the lingering
germs are driven out, and the weak,
despondent victims of influenza are
transformed into cheerful, healthy,
happy men and women.
But better still, you can put your-
self in. a condition to resist an attack
of influenza by enriching the blood
through the use of Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills, and this, it seems, is -the sensible
thing to do at once. '
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by
all dealers in medicine or will be sent
by mail at 50 cents a box, or six boxes
for $2.50, by The Dr. Williams' Medi-
cine Co., Brockville, Ont.
Less than 1 per cent. of the total
number of women in India are educat-
ed, but these few are ',making big
strides to form plans to educate all
the women.
Minard's Liniment Co., Limited. ,
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VILANDIE FRERES.
13 Chicks Out of 12 Eggs.
The hatching of a double -yolked egg
is not by any means a rarity. But it
is a very rare occurrence indeed for
such an egg to produce two perfect
chickens. Cases of this kind. have,
however, occurred from time to time.
The stuffed figures of a couple of
perfect chickens which emerged from
one and the same egg are to be found
in the British Museum.
.A. few cases have been authenti-
cated of the appearance from a single
egg of two chickens joined together
by a wing or a leg, but as the general
rule, when a double -yoked egg is
hatched, the result is a monstrosity
in the shape of a chick with two heads
or two pairs of legs.
Many people think that- the produc-
tion of two perfect chickens from a
double -yoked egg is by no means un-
common, because sittings which they
have placed under fowls have yielded
one more chicken than the number of
eggs. It is, however, far more prob-
able that cases. of this kind result
from the fowl slaving Iaid another egg
after sho had commenced her task of
incubation,
Mothers, if your. Dally or growing
child Is sickly; if he does not sleep
well at night; if he cries a great deal
is constipated,, and -his little bowels
and stomach are not working right,
give him 13aby's Own Tablets—they
have proved of great help to thousands
of mothers.' Concerning the Tablets
:firs, W. H. Dt cater, Corson's Siding,
Ont., says: ----"I have used iiahy's Own
"Tablets and have found them excel-
lent for the little ones and -would not
be without thein." The Tablets are a
mild but thorough laxative and are
guaranteed to contain no harmful
drug—that is why they always do
good and never harm. They are sold
by medicine dealers or by mail at 25
cents- a box from The Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
HOW LONG CAN THEY DO IT?
There is in Canada current opinion
that it costs the Government $1.03 to
get $1 of gross revenue from the rail-
roads which have been emancipated
from the capitalistic Class. A deficit
of $50,000,000 in 1919 is the forecast.
This straightway gives rise to conjec-
ture as to what the true relation of
cost and revenue would be if some
courageous Administration reached
down to the bottom of our own Gov-
ernment operation of the roads.
Thanks in part to the peculiarities
of the Canadian situation the private
Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific
Have contributed nobly to the Govern-
ment's experiment in railroad opera-
tion, This and other causes have
steadily lifted the percentage of cost,
to gross revenue. To -day it is 89 per
cent, for the Grand Trunk and 81 per
cent. for the Canadian Pacific. The
percentage time actually discloses the
shocking scandal of surplus, rather
than the uplifting -inspiration of de-
ficit.
Monthly statements duly audited
and certified show Canadian Pacific
and Grand Trunk can still operate on
their own motive power; the exact
status of the Government roads is not
so clearly revealed. Why it is not is
a matter of conjecture, -friendly, in-
vidious or neutral, as may be. Some
irreconcilables want to know how
they are to reach a conclusive audit
of Canadian Northern, making a true
capital investment basis for figures.
Others say there is an operation defi-
cit of more than three per cent.
What if it be so that the more
wheels turn round and the faster they
go, the more money they lose? If it
costs 3 cents net loss to take in a dol-
lar, isn't the taxpayer there to pay it?
And doesn't the paltry 3 cents go at
once back into circulation? "As long
as he has a dollar left to burn, why
shouldn't the taxpayer writhe and
turn?"
Astaunch supporter of a western
co-operative grain concern with a long
and honorable record of losses used
to refer to its "turnover" as its "turn -
under." Happily free of the embar-
rassment of literary cult, he has given
the Government's railroad auditors a
book heading, accurate and novel. 1,
They should be satisfied and so should
the taxpayers. For as a facetious in-
quirer for Government figures says:
"If a taxpayer is not to pay these
taxes, what is lie for?" But how long
can they do it?—Wall Street Journal.
The titular honors conferred upon
naval and military leaders in the war
by the British Parliament are more
lavish than most people expected, con=
s.isting of nine peerages, eight Baron-
eteies and one Grand Commandership
of the Bath. The generous money gifts
are in keeping with eustom -since the
eighteenth century.
Minard's Liniment Cures Burns, etc.
The efficient police work done lilt
women in England during the war
has been the means of many of them
being retained in their jobs.
"SYRUP OF FIGS'
CHILD'S LAXATIVE
Look at tongue! Remove poi-
sons from little stomach,
liver and bowels
Accept "California" Syrup of Pigs
only—look for the name California on
the package, then you are sure your
child is having the best and most
harmless laxative or physic for the
little stomach, livor and bowels. Child-
ren love its delicious fruity taste.
Full directions for child's dose on each
bottle. Give it without fear.
Mother! You must say "California."
ISSUE No. 41—'19.
What it Merited,'
Tho vocalist's mother sat listening
with a proud smile. Then she turned
to a lover of music aid said:
"Do you think her voice ought to be
cultivated?"
The lover of music replied:
"No, I think it ought to be harvesir
ell„
A Schemer.
Small boy (politely)—"Won't you
take another piece • of cake, Miss
Jones?"
Guest --"Well, since you are 00
pressing, I will."
Small boy—"Now, mother, remem-
ber your promise that if 'you had to
cut the second cake, I could have a
piece,"
Diplomacy.
She "Mrs. Green has just got an-
other new hat, and I—"
He: "My dear, Mrs. Green has to
have new hats, • If she were as pretty
and as attractive as you she wouldn't
have to depend on the milliner so
much."
A it of a Facer.
A man, says the Weekly Telegraph,
complained of the conduct of his son,
He related to a friend all the young
man's escapades,
"You should speak to him with firm-
ness and recall him to his duty," said
the friend.
"I have, of course; but he pays not
the least attention to what I say, He
listens only to the advice of fools. I
wish you would talk to him."
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Let folks step on your feet hereafter;
wear shoes a size smaller if you like,
for corns will never again send electric
sparks of pain through you, according
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He says that a few drops of a drug
called freezone, applied directly upon
a tender, aching corn, instantly re-
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corn, root and all, lifts right out.
This drug is a sticky ether com-
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It is claimed that a quarter of an
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Aspirin is the trade mark e:egb'tered in caneda) of Slayer Manufacture of Mono.
atcoticacidcst•;:r e1 :'all, i, c U 1 it t.. °:411 i t.,tcn that .S.apirin means Bayer
manufacture, to a0etst tl, rt:,;taliana, th Tahtets of Sayer CornpdnZ
%VIII bo *tamped with their ,.n;tu1 ;.mac': nark, the "layer Crofl ,"