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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-2-10, Page 7I Am the Automobile. Protract of brain and brawn, I fill Man's primary need for transpoi'tta' Mon, I aid the progress of civilize - tion by bringing men closer together, I am the friend and•the a servant of mankind. I am the companion of 'reexeation and the helpmeet of work. I render etiiployuient to millions. I ages, ,, • speed production and the delivery os Be..prepared. to give ,,,pedestdaua the world's 'goods, "lifts" on country a'oads,a .," I increase the value of property, Stop ear and engine when meeting I place the country within reach"of drovers with cheep, swine or cattle the city dweller and bring the a eg on country roads, ' to the doors of country folk, ^ Park only at side .ef roads, leaving To the farmer I have been a god- fair way, send.,. •1 save hint time and labor, When buying produce In the cowl - Through rite he bas improved his way of living: I have brought the town elope "ter huh:" '" ' The manufacturer depends on me to carry merchandise from source to fac- tory and on to the markets. I proclaim .the• wares ofthe. mer- chant. I swell his profits. I serve the customer,: I.,Am.,the , feet of. ;the salesman, Keep to the right of the read, Slow down at crossings, Signa} fora etoP or turn to the cars behind by holding out the left hand. APPly brakes slowly, Change ped rates elowly. 13ajve carefully,. , 13e prepared to help any mogerist in,trou•ble, in reeds sl'Aatant from gar - try park alongside •roads not ,en the. road. 'When perkier at night Heave warn- ing lights. , .. , . ,, Have headlight dimmers and use them when meeting and passing other motorists at night. When picnicking, carefully ,pu out picnic fires. • ' When picnicking, do not trespass to bearing him to. greater • service, to gather„ wild flowers,, ..tree • branches, more. and ,greater riches. blos.son(is„'•reit pr shru*p•.,,,, I bring the physician In time to When piceicking,hcloan, •up thor- save the. stricken..: I keep his mind oughly, remeeieg from, sig i all cans, keen and his hand steady. I restore roses to the cheeks of pallor. I serve the interests of all pro- fessions. I am the inspiration of art and of letters. Man is indebted to me for the broadening influence of travel. I pro- v;de comfort and protection on his way. Womanrealizes her independence through my offices, To youth I me,en the wholesomeness of the great„gp,tdoors,. the rpoetry of notion and the romance of changing scene. To age I bring rejuvenation, through diversions other than the hearthstone. I attend man at his birth. Through- out the spay o life.; am, the cradle, ;the; saddle and the rocking chair, =•1 am the bearer'to 'the final place -of rest. I are the new common carrier. I Rules for "Knights” of the Road. What •should m: driverdoa• •The -rules. aro -Very simple: papers and rubbish. Give all vehicles, especially loaded trucks, a good half of the road.. Take hills' on the right ,side of the road. Go over the crest carefully. Avoid coasting or .speeding „around curves at foot of hills. Be courteous to pedestrians. Do not drive your car at them full tilt and laugh when they jump. Do not splash water on thein "as' they stand at crossings or near curbs, waiting for you to pass. • Learn and follow thh'•Ibta1 traffic rules, speed limits and dniving:,ordi- nances. These ate-•iiiade'"dd' the common good of all drivers, including yourself, and of all pedestrians. With these practices universally followed by drivers, motoring will maintain ,its safety, its, freedom, its a s r neing and its favord'ble acceptance .by the, community. The automobile is too vital to the r•• m.n.."..• nation;'roo' inucii a �pai�: oib t '"b'Coo'$ and ••bone•-of-•the-counbryts--eeonetxic life to have its vie curtailed through the-failure•of• itseusei+s-to'.€ollow the rules of simple courtesy end""sisfety, Social Censorship. F Since the :year• one, and probably before that, eaen and ' Women' h'ave'met in •soleani conclave to,deploro the. passing of the good old days ,of -sober manners, of high -bred -decorum; of reticence in apeehh ante 'reet 'Teethe -hit hi apparel. This is not written pi 'de' precation of such remonstrance,s,,•,It, is tight „sal -,register. 4=4 44. and. to -1 co-ordinate the influences of public opinion against vulgarizing fashions"} and cnstmih's^'at'ad defiferanterh+ fbiins of entertainment. But iris an ori r to nss:me that thoworld .in general rushes /mediahg to yeiflitTh'n lusii'thut no ogvex can _restrein:it•€rom..plung;. ing over the brink of the abyss. The world has survived the prophesied rain times without number, and it is rt a better, sweeter, purer world than it ever was in its life before. A hundred years ago it was . per- fectly good form to get drunk and to ata, drunk as long as you liked. People then "played tennis with the Seventh Commandment" much more. generally than they do nowadays. They took slave -holding as a matter of course; and one who had the cou- age to denounce slavery, became a pilloried martyr for his Convictions. Before that epoch, in the days still extolled for their piety and purity, men and women were hatauged for witchcraft or beaten at the cas't-tair for dissent. It was, "indeed, a beauti- ful world, in which- women and chil- dren were suffered to work any num- ber of •hours, in which tha n:sene were whipped 'to drive out devils;' in which Sabbath observance was cramped into a .sepelchral gloom and, an infant who never heard a sermon was for- ever damned. Then' a§ to -day, when the df•tisses' of women were long, 'some-'iiln- isters -preached against long dresses; when phey'were•short, some ministers preached against short dresses; when women ,wore, stays, they . were .de - • 1 I The uneducated, un prepared ..run,, is al • ways placed• at a great, , - disadvantage. No met, • •, tel~ • ,hvw much ability' ,orfr"may'have, if he i§' .jgnoxllt, he is dis-, ••eotanted - It is not en o u g h to possess. a13iIits ; i m'YP g t be • »..,, m, a .d.e-.auaifalle by' mental.discipline. '1 nursed frern.theihsulpit.far.that; and .when. they,left. off. -stays,. ,they, ware excoriated for 1eaving them off. Then, as now, no matter` wast" you'd Ind; some reformers were ready to orate and berate, and the only place in which you could be sure of peace was the lock-up. Few Eeople ever thought of visiting the prisons to see if captives wore humanely treated They were not. People were too busy being religious to• bother about being hu mane. They' were ao ,good that they gave religion e black; eye from which it has not yet recovered. Tlever,was,the level of public mor- ality or individual” conduct so high as it is to -day. Silly people continue to do shoeldnaL things to win notor- iety. Ugly ind bloody crimes deface ear civilization.: and retard the advent of the millennium. War has not ceased and isuhsan"'iiar'Ct'ie is a far cry from the angelic. And still the world nie Veg;' ea the brae' illi Galilee cried /told This tosmiirat, and'it moves away from selhslities§ arid' sin to nobleness, from• hist • to ,leve from darkness to the .light. • • „ MexraPe RefPotlUi5:'•' ' •Mexico's••production--of •petroleum has multiplied more ,thae-three times ht seven years, the output last year exceeding ,97,aQo QQO. baru'e4,• •INCOME TAX NIGHTMARI='I Unrest in India. _,__Tho._" non,co-operation'.---aatevn:eet in India grows apace, and is a cause of acute anxiety to those who observe tate' tretif, and the seabed 'Of 'its' mast insidious -propaganda.. The lender of the,ntpveneent,.is„ M. X. Gandhi, ,an while he is .a man whose intellectual olttleo'k 'i's "seierely ,l/Tinted, he hag bean invested• by ins •followers •with •supernatiiral.stttibutell, giving'hiu'an. influence out of proportion to his in- telligeece•or his.education,:lTe belongs to the type that ia,lifted sometimes •by, ,cireuinstanres to'a''stiange hie -main; etfee---t ven'tis a Mandi-rises in•a'heat- mirage.,of thelBeildaril or a Bolshevist commissar stands •om'th'e'•shoulde's of the-ovowd in Soviet Russia.. The in- ferior qualityeaf, GandJti•vtas,.exposed by Lord eRonaldshay, governor- of Bengal, in an address before'' the 'St. Andrew's" Society- in Calcutta a few weeks ago. Lord Ronaldshay quoted. Gandhi's; own words to show hoW childish,attd how feeble are the tenets, andathe p"•eeeits. of t is calf-anaiuted high -priest of Indian home rule. Gandhi as; -net-consistent:f lttTwo days together. He has -declared himself op- pose d,.to. the, social .boycott,. such as that which has, prevented the` burial of .Indian' loyalists . in 'consecrated ground." But 'iis'f5fl ale fia•Ve re- peatedly interfered to make such:in- ternment jnlpeesihl epsi, manly those who know India from within are able to restlite,;rhnt,.ltnrilt'1.outaidL ,the pale means to the family and'friendf of..tbe «eeettsesl„ ' Gandhi • has declared that the -ma- dhin;ed invented by 'Man to „facilitate locomotion are unholy, -yet the Iatest refidit,'is that he :."has fled frosii, place to place by automobiles and railways" to escape•.t3te,authorities and,•ro give color ter the wanner tenet that Ise saved hiinself. by miraculous. means. He d es"jest, whit egitatore heather lands .have done, He uses for his osva liurlioses. the hiviliaed" cletriOes ltd' de- nounces, and barricades ..himself :•be- hind' convention§ anti' aheepfed',psiages even 'while -he inflames lis• followers against theist :". Gandhi • and his people would ruin Tighe tl okdCf.tO,save,ller,its;ladmtwd Burke said of Lord North's policy to' wiird` "Aiiierida "tiles" vvnould destroy their object. ,,,.They .are :achieving..an industrial.paralysis,'a social stagneh thee, in some areas, but to what fruit- ful and eonatruetive achievement can they point? It does not help India to ttepopul'ate the colleges, to, halt the mitairielsile,..bei. Prevent the registra- tiop of voted, to ,declare. strikes atthe coal mines •and•in the, factories.. No, thing as :easier -among the illiterate and♦ the superstitious than••to creates fantastic vprisbegs'by' a•'wildfire 'fab - ria tion of ;oppression and abuse: The snere.face ,hat Gandhi is an ignor amt;s.enalles.the .ignorant to under - stead him, better. hula to welcome him aseone•=of themselves. He is against every scientific modern advance `and' every enlightened political concept. His" one 'passion''is' se'Ifegovernment fo :chose Who, will' -not know what.to de. With this wi,oversuneskt, if they get it. ..0,'ha §edition he stimulates is foe mented-,.,elsewhere. by :. Bolshevists, Sinn Feinersf • Turkish Nationalists, tihe I W: W:;^ the• shaggy partis stts of the Emir'of"Afghamstan; and' Lennie, Trotz•Itq and Company,, s'eoltig their dyRa o„Or'th1 wQxld:d'ona nione of Loin-. munism.•(as.:they fondly.imagine), in a fair way. to -be realized; chuckle•and rub their • hands: • Reese hatred, Lord Danaldsltay'reMutfts'us is 'the' pass-' word "df 'the non.co-6'peratdrs'of Inde; Itis the;gonitaon; teneanii ater of Cora; niu nap1. throughout.,the world, though. it .belies the. very.nasne,and the pro- fessed aim- of the Communists. There are stail'cous'agettua men and firm itdmihistrators Arid sand peoples of India Arid other, lands who will stand, against, the effort, to envel- op the leerld,in blood and 8re,ddle-. ness, starvation -and lawless•insurgen- cy-posturing and clamorous beneath' the ensign of human brotherhood. EcononiY. ,Wi11;is,„ 'Our.aunelay dinner costs a dollar for five of M. That's .eoonomy, issut it? KiHis-"I've got you beaten. -Ours costs 'thirty-five' Cents for five of vs." Willis-"HoW do you manage it?"' 'gillis-"We take the trolley out to my. Mother-in-law's.:' "1 he itst Professor. -„Pa, ,the whale that swallowed :Jonah svas•tho.original profiteer, wasn't he?" ,In•+wliat way; my son"?" • , -"Didn't•he'grab 'all the prophet fa sig'htT -` litheae,,,,eee \ PART - OF- GREAT t,ECTRIC ,SYSTEM The. Toronto F'oi'er'iiouse at• Nl'agara. Falls which becomes the property• of ' tli0"Oncttri'o,;HalithePAeotrip CQntihleeihn adder' the' recent pittchaOb -of, the- lyleKenzie •interests -•.. thing lite, In ilio sumo ssut y. lie see npi'b ing but the ncgiltlee side. lire does not; see life an a n 110' WAN and with and sllltdcs ire joys•and sorrows its 111°3'11410o ape -bait doss ; l cau,0is lied gaze 1. fastened on the gloomy lido. ills mind dwells on the ehasdowe, the sorrows and heartbreaks, Ilia view 91 life is false beeauee It is onesided. The optimism dors not ignore ti1u ills of life. Not at alit But just es he sees the whole of the do:ugbant, pot the hole alone, he sees the whole pf life,; Its•joy, its beauty; its, love, all its » maifold divide gifts, as; well as its pain and sorrow end auffea•ug and crime, ail its erns and ugliness His philosophy is to enjoy the good Mite'and be•tliaakful for them, and to do his best to cure the ills, • ' • That is the true phtloaophy of life. If we were all pessimists, the world wouldrsoon come to an end. The race would wither and die out,, It lit op- timism, oheerfulteees, the persistent belief in the ultimate triumph of good that keeps the world going and, the race progressing, $o let us' have good cheer, more and more of its More cheerfulness •will help you all along the line of life, It will help you to bear your burdens; it will help you to overcome obstacles; it will Inerease your courage, strengt:hea your initia- tive, make you more effective, more popular, more helpful. It will make you a happier, more sueceeeful man or IR I were'asked to nano :One h nb that wquld help the bnman lace. taon+ l than any other, I ' wuald say,- "riots ' cheerfiilnessl" More cheerfulness means sacro :lie, more happinesti, more sucos.'ss, more efmlciemey, more character, a larger future. .Andrew Carnegie .paved hied p?illulasi ty, and much of his sudeees and hap- piness, to his cheerful disposition. In his later years he said: "My young partners do the 'tWOrk abd I do the 9arughing, and 1 commend to you the tbought'thaf there' °9e very Ittle 'sue- case where there Is little laughter." Choerfuluess meane poise, a sane, wholesosne, well-balanced otitioak on life. There is no philosophy like cheerfulness. ' No 'oiie'ra,n estimate the healthful, upllftin:g power of one cheerful life, one serohely bitlaaced soul in the home , The pessimist' is •e pessimist •be- cause he lacks a broad philosophy of life. His gloomy -feel, sour expree- cion, worrying mind, fretting disposi- tion and general dis1htiefaotion.wIth the scheme _of things are indications Of a little, nAerow, lopsided soul, They ore the earmarks of weakness, a con- fession of Inability to understand or cope with one's envlronmeats, The definition- of -a pessimist as one who, when loolrlstg, at, a .dpugbttut sees noting but the bele, is .a good one, The -pessimist looks at the world, at 1' •i Misft:Occupations. If life means anything it• means 'expression. If we do not ex- press ourselves we do not grow, we de not really live. Thiak.of baying to look back an a life of drudgery -spent ,es: a mialit 0Ocu_:. "patron in which we could not ex- press ourselves or our ideals.-- in other words, a'life'which has only oppressed what We' ire not 'end what wo, lo not, stand for! The miilenuiuip will come when, every man, woman, and child, is In his place, when everybody is. • doing what he was made to do. Sri long is the bora farmer tries ' Co make laws ft the Iel[slotiire, and the mem }yhom"nature -in- tended far, an engineer, is putting,,. rids ,congregation •to.sleep from the •paipit, civilization• will not make very great' progress. _ Winter Night., Bring in the lags and pile them highert Push lip %lid Wi or at -Mohair, so; Draw 11* high-backed settle,, nigher and gather int the firelight's glow.. The sharp -snow stings the window • glasses, The been `tend trios 'oar door be Vain; ` He piill6 the sihuttdhs as lie passes ed lulls andeighs and turns again. Bi3ng the carved oak not bowl in find trigs& red apples wet'• -bee=t keeping;- Lay.on a �agot; you beglsi And spina story while it's leaping. Outside the bitter winter patted; Bis frost and oo1d but add delight` To a hearth firs bringing wells -loved faces Horne again to its wanner to -night. H'e Guessed Right. "Dc you love me tor,myself.alone?". he asked her, "Why, certainly, silly," she'said•won- detingiy, - "What 'else should I' love "t&y'automobile;" The atartfed llook that"came, ov i, her face made him weeder if he hadn't hif it light after all " "" -World's (popper- Production • • The -World prodiictfom of copper fn the ninetetnttl, ceptury,has ,beeen mated .at. 10,240,400 Iona; ., the -first decade ofthe twentieth century pro duced 7,389,000 tones acid -the -second decade will exceed 10,000,000 'tons,' • "Owing Co an ice dam the Ameridan Falls went dry on Marek 09„l$4$, still the Roreeshoe,Fall was ,reduced -to a rivulet.. From. a similar -cause -the. American Falls disappeared -for eines; days' `in the winter` of 1909, and, he April; 1909, an ice lent to the'lower river„lifted 'the ,water p6 feet above noxmal..at Queenaton, , flooding the. banks and obliterating the Whirlpool and rapids.--• -- • ' Japan and Naval Armaments Perhaps the most important con- tribution that has yet 'beeps made to the pending discussion over the possi- bility of a tripartite agreement look- ing to the reduction or limitation of navel construction by. Great Britain, the United, .States and Japan is to be •found in the explicit statements 'cabled by an American newspaper correspondent in Tokio as com- ing from the Prime minister of japan, Takashi Harp. It is impossible' to find in this explicit utterance of this Japansses slmtesman ,anything that differs in principle from the po- sition of the naval authorities of Bri- tain or of the United States; it re- peats the familiar assurance that the Japanese"tivival preg'rah le -aimed at no. other power, but is designed to protect,the>domestic, interests ,and ,the. commerce of Japan That is what we all say, of course. But Mr, Hara goes a step further and gives the signlfi- cant-assurance that •if the other pow- ers agree to cease warship building' "no country would enter such an agreement here gladly than Japan,” This is ars far SS ITS or any e'astes- man could be expected to go in the present stage of the discu's'sion: 'Birt it offers a hope that the proposals for a naval holiday will prove to be sone- thing more than a pious wish. and that all civilized pepples • may ,Sootier or latter be relieved from the burdens now . imposed 1y a mad .competition, for ,the maintenanee of . armaments, which •are continually growing in the face of 'reiterated assurances ' 'that they are solely for defence. If it be true that we are all on the defensive, that we 'haverte aggresside intentions nattiest neighbors, far or near; then it is no longer istopiiuh to hope for the day when navies will be .unnecessary*. That day; however, is still far distant; and it should be remembered that the present 'niovefnent , looks.. not .to . the: impossible, but to .a sane, and prac- tical limitation of the spun annually efpended upon•, objects: *WebWould be admittedly unnecessary were there an agreement ansoiug the great naval •powers stidh a5 is noW suggested, • Yeast'as a Food. - "' The -value of yeast as a food is no new discovery, but when -food was plentiful such extra nutrieata.received. less attention. The food 'value of yeast; is riving to vitamins, the absence of which from a regular, diet nsay be the• cause of dis,ease even when the ration is bulky and apparently nutritious. Bakers' yeast !a not palatable„ but, _e c- eortting to an English periodical, there ars extracts on the market that are. like a delicious, clear soup. No one 'would suppose that the substance had yeast for its oasts, soauopesafully has the sour taste. been removed.Tho yeast plant is not killed in the pro - mum, FROM..,; LONDON There meet rte very few picture gwileries that are not visited by i tieek1 eiy eceter;ul tittles ti."Year. She usually' arrives at a"g'allery 'a little before eleven, when there aro fete' people about; but if stray *tare lovers come in while site is there she will not allow them to he sent away, but trusts 'to 'their 'geed taste to let her pursue this .simplest pleasure of hersin peace. As for museums,• T suppose if we all knew their contents as well as does Her Majesty we might claim to he really matured, The curators who satteed her, and who are .all lenei t'1iy name to rite• Queen; deetaxe ohe le one of their motst••appeeeii tive-vislseos, * * * * Quetnt Alexswxis7t posaeeae's:the em- otional artistic temperamentto a 'Maurked degree: Titers is lithe dovbt that had she been allowed to enkbraco a stage career, the world would have , gained • a great actress. Wrists she was ,suite a child ahs ,sed• to mite .no rel- etbes of the most mmairhic nature. IIna fortunately, -none ed these =mantle, effusions o1 Queers Alexandra's girl- hood have been preserved. s * , * 0 The diary habit at which we have heard so much s-soentily is,.1 !am in-' formed, a cottflrmed one in the Royal Family. The Queen banglit a number of ` diaries at the Advent isms. Exhi- bitioni at the White fifty, many of whdeh were, no doubt, for Ther friends. Her own one each year comes from the same firm that has always bei her` patnoasa.ge, and is mounted in beautiful purple leather. * £ "It3hg Realm of Norway, who visit- ed England recently with Prince Olaf for a•stayat Sandringham, ie a stick- ler for punctuality. While aboard the gteamer • Itollo, Prince Olaf appeared at the breakfast table ten minutes lake, After the meal he was told by the king that he must stay in his room for an hour as :pun- ishment. * * * * The duties of a Foreign tbecret srys ere onerous, particularly after ai great •war which leaves foreign poli- tics in a chnetie-auid tangled condition, but I hear that Mr. Balfour told Sir •H mar-Qreenwood-,the rotlter•day.-that ,hs world not , change positions with, 'hits, Sir Hartnare• as Chief Seca c to*y for' Ireland, is occupying the prah;iea which Mr. Bralfltur occupied over thirty years ago. and some or Isle_ Balfour' s m•enertet are di;tinc:ly lively. Ile relates one awry will•a torah of humor in it. One -day he came upon an Irish wo.uati Mgging up her patch of potatoes, and he made asn:e t remark eoneerning their quality. "Alt, bad luck,.to .Mm, I3aifuur'." ex- claimed the woman. ".1 wish I could bee hint! ' ..,ysn Jsis itali,1o, ' rtPhe;l the' statesman, smiling bl [rdiy Th:e e,'oniais stop. s;1 'tligs,nsi;•, a d! gazed herd at him. "Well cone," she said, after the scrutiny, !ori s r v 't. often heard last 1 I a the divil's not so black as he's paint- ed:” • c The estimated shortage• of houses in England' acid Wales is' 800,000:" The world's eonsuliaption, 04' sugar getieneted at, between, 14,000,000 and 15,009,000 .tons, a..year. •- ` • •Lilts It'You•bon't Weaken.. BY Jack -Rabbit The constsiitCee„ tlsat, has hien ,sitiaiug ni to decide the proper Saes, for the , great battles. of the -war .has mow completed its duties•• and will report to the Government forthwith. Phase trashes are nehes=airs is order that in s due course they may, be emblazoned 1 on ',the .,colors of the, regiments co-; gaged, and Ube. bars hearingtheir' titles may be prepared for hail iduais. I But the 'rank and'file les its own( names for thee* anions. Ask a sol-! dier wise was there, for. instance, sof give a name to the tri:i ; basil:°, eel Fourteen thoasanil pounds is to be spent on the enlargement of ilia.' Press Gallery of the House of t'uns- mon's, including the provifiion of': fresh reading, wrltina mid tipewr;-: ing reonms. The stem:tu ul alterations; will cause the Gallery apartments to' exteud,sosne way . towards the Clock.; Tower,,There ere- at present lii;R' journalists• -who are members of the% Gallery, and•the existing arcommoda=l tion is quite inadequate. --BIG BEN. First Class Scout-- ">7c> you see Shat house up"there ?" Second ' Class: Scout --"Yee, what aboeh it?" FFIrst C1aste Scout -"Well, that house' wes.,built . with money . made from many sufferings, writhings, agonies and. much blood." Second Claes Scout --"Whit beast; lives there?" Float OlasiS•'Scoul< ' My dentist." oilshtBoy, Manager -Did •you put the extra s ;Stamp on the letter I- gave you to man f" - Bety-" %a .s r."•., ... - Manager -"I hopo yon, didn't poets the .stamp • in so it.oblitorated,tbe ail dress." Boy-•• 'Oh, •no, I attack it right oil; top the other stamp to save room," That kid Again. Boy -"Are yon and sip going art •se long' bike this •afternoon?" • Bettor "Tea "Timmy; why do you oak?" .1 -.Con 1 , ,. " © Tp E'yEtk 01E . N'C i HEN \ OfE . • ;;: 'IOU Nilo. ?ROA( NA1/4t ; TO 6£ 4,.. a+Zac any ,..11...t.-.. .,.. / / r yyµµty rr" Mi� �[� Q ,/. ,: :. ,11 .- ,. V QN',?46 .'1-i f'iH@ {.I�Z1.: •lp1R:444th 1.1 VEtz,. '.. Wtt) •ANY PO:AMC' , , p.. ; *`r tl '.. (. -.i, , ,u-.••- 1 y �. S Ot°i i" WI�AK LOOK. I' 1 l- A 'IP k./ .(T COSt`S.. M� MO -t'( .. _ .. , f' •'''its , Nc,• \ '• 60+ 141 . ., „ a . x74[4...-"..-. .. The constsiitCee„ tlsat, has hien ,sitiaiug ni to decide the proper Saes, for the , great battles. of the -war .has mow completed its duties•• and will report to the Government forthwith. Phase trashes are nehes=airs is order that in s due course they may, be emblazoned 1 on ',the .,colors of the, regiments co-; gaged, and Ube. bars hearingtheir' titles may be prepared for hail iduais. I But the 'rank and'file les its own( names for thee* anions. Ask a sol-! dier wise was there, for. instance, sof give a name to the tri:i ; basil:°, eel Fourteen thoasanil pounds is to be spent on the enlargement of ilia.' Press Gallery of the House of t'uns- mon's, including the provifiion of': fresh reading, wrltina mid tipewr;-: ing reonms. The stem:tu ul alterations; will cause the Gallery apartments to' exteud,sosne way . towards the Clock.; Tower,,There ere- at present lii;R' journalists• -who are members of the% Gallery, and•the existing arcommoda=l tion is quite inadequate. --BIG BEN. First Class Scout-- ">7c> you see Shat house up"there ?" Second ' Class: Scout --"Yee, what aboeh it?" FFIrst C1aste Scout -"Well, that house' wes.,built . with money . made from many sufferings, writhings, agonies and. much blood." Second Claes Scout --"Whit beast; lives there?" Float OlasiS•'Scoul< ' My dentist." oilshtBoy, Manager -Did •you put the extra s ;Stamp on the letter I- gave you to man f" - Bety-" %a .s r."•., ... - Manager -"I hopo yon, didn't poets the .stamp • in so it.oblitorated,tbe ail dress." Boy-•• 'Oh, •no, I attack it right oil; top the other stamp to save room," That kid Again. Boy -"Are yon and sip going art •se long' bike this •afternoon?" • Bettor "Tea "Timmy; why do you oak?" .1 -.Con 1 , ,.