The Seaforth News, 1937-01-14, Page 4PGE FOUR.
THE SEAFORTII NE\VS.
Snowdon Bros., , Publishers.
BLYTH
Obituary.—
Death occurred on Friday morning.
Dec, 5th at the home of Mrs. Thos.
E'fliott of William 'Taylor. Mr. and
Mrs. Taylor had been resident of con -
'cession 7,, Morris, for many years,
:moving to Mrs. IElliott's owing to a
serious itlness..M•r. Taylor is survived
by his 'wife, who before her marriage
was Barbara Tucker. One child died
in 'infancy. Two :brothers also passed
away, Andrew of St. Thomas, and
Weil, of Blyth, also a sister, Mrs, T.
'Gosman,, Toronto. Funeral was 'he'ld
from the home of his ister-in-law,
Mrs. Wail Taylor, on Sunday and bur-
ia'l took place at the Union cemetery.
Mr, and firs, L. O. Miller df IGode-
rich were visitors with the latter's.
mother, Mrs. A. M. Colelough, on
Sunday.
Mr, Wilmot Webster .spent the
week end with his family at Toronto.
Women's Institute—
'The'January meefing of the Wom-
en's Institute met at the home of
Mrs. Lyddiatt with the president,
Bars. IR. Richmond, presiding. The
roll] call was answered by the memb-
ers bringing one of the oldest photos,,
lA communication was read from the
children's shelter at 'Goderich, aok-
nowiedging the gift of fruit and pick-
les from the Branch. It was decided
to hold a fancily night fu !Orange Hall
in February. A committee was ap-
pointed to arrange the sport program.
Mrs. A. Barr, Mrs. A, Taylor, Mrs. F.
•Oster, program [committee, Mrs. E.
Johnston, Mrs. .Geddes. Mrs. James
McGill, Mrs, Petts. It was also de-
cided to pay 825 to hall hoard, A read-
ing, "The Legend of the Spices." was
given by Mrs. IA, Taylor. 'The topic.
"Peace," was dealt with by the can-
rener of the standing committee on
peace, Mrs, 'James McGill, and was
listened to with vouch interest. Meet-
ing was brought to a close by singing
the national anthem. Lunch was serv-
ed by the committee in charge, Mrs.
A. Taylor, Mrs. Murray and Mrs. A.
Fawcett,
HAYFIELD
'"lhtttsday evening the Ire'h ter -
au,
are • holding a congregational
alit tin a...\fter a business meeting the
congregation will have• a stepper and
spend n social evening.
Mr. 1.. Fo•wlie of London spent
Sunday with his sisters, the Misses
Fowlie in the village.
The annual meeting of the library
met itt the library Monday afternoon,
'lite fdllotving ,officers were elected
for another year: Mr, G. 'Greenslade,
Sec.-treas.; Miss ,Fawlie, librarian;
directors, Rev. '1\fr. Gale, Mrs. Met-
calf, Mrs. Bailey, Mrs. Seotchmer,
Mrs. W. Ferguson, Miss Sterling,
Miss Woods and Miss M. 'Groves
Mrs, E. R. Weston of rGoderich has
been spending a 'few days visiting her
sister, Mrs, M. Toms.
The trustee board of Bayfield pub-
lic school have arranged to have mus-
ic taught itt 'the sc'hoo'l and have se-
-cured the services of 'Mr. H.Scotch-
mos to conduct the lessons.
Mr. and Mrs. !Wm. Ferguson and
J'ac'k spent Saturday in London.
The .many 'friends of Mrs. George
•Castle Sr, will -be- sorry to hear she is
under the doctor's care.
WINTHROP
The euchre and dance held in the
heti last Friday night was well at-
tended. The prize winners were: lad-
les, most games, Mrs. !heron Bet-
ties; on hands, !Miss Margaret Hab-
kirk; men's most 'games, Mr. George
Smith; lone hands, Mr. Robert
Dodd,. After lunch a few hours were
spent in dancing. Another euchre and
dance will be held onthe2.nd.
Winthrop ;hnni<tr Hockey Meant de-
feated Kipped last Saturday night.
rhe sort' was 3-2, \\'ell dune, 'boys.
We are sorry to learn Mr, \Vnt.
Ninney is on the sick •list.
AUBURN
Miss Margaret Jackson visited with
her brother, and her mother returned
to Toronto with her.
Lewis Wagner and family of Brew-
ster were visitors with Mr. and Mrs,
Jacob 'Wagner.
At the regular meeting. of the
Y:P.U. of Knox United Church the
installation of officers was held. It
was in charge of Rev, H. C. Wilson,
Miss V. Sharp, Miss Coutts and Mr.
A. Hasty have returned to their
schools here,
Mrs. H. C. Wilson was presented
with a life membership certificate at
the meeting of the Uinted - Church
'W,M.S, on Tuesday afternoon. Rev,
!H. C. 'Wilson conducted -the installa-
, tion officers,
'Reg. Asquith has returned to
Queens University to pursue his
studies,
Miss Alma hfutch has returned to
Toronto.
'Mrs. William John King formerly
,Miss :Julia Elkew of Auburn passed
away at her home 118 'Glenwood Ave.,
Toronto on Tuesday. She was buried
from the hone of her sister Mrs.
W. C. 'Rdbertsgtt on Thursday after -
spoon, Rev. A. W. Sherman officiated.
The 'January meeting of the Bap-
tiet Liadies' Aid was held at the 'home
of Mrs. James Raithby on 'Thursday.
The election of 'odtfieiers resulted in
the officers of 19.6 being re-elected,
Thr meeting of the Sunshine Olub
was hold in the Foresters Hall on. Sat-
urday afternoon.
Merril Cantelon, Presidept of Wing -
ham B.V;P Lr, will be the guest at
the local B.Y:P.U. next Sunday night.
Mr. Camelot] plays gospel songs on
the accordion, musical saw, mouth
organ and Spanish guitar. The meet-
ing will be in charge of Mr. and .Mfrs.
Frank Raithby.
HURON ROAD WEST.
Mr. George McDermid of St. Cath-
erines is visiting at the home of his
brother, Malcolm 'McDermid's, It is
43 years 'since Mr, \'lc'.Dermid left the
did honne. He has been teaching
school in the 'West part of the time.
He met with a car accident about two
weeks ago. Old friends are pleased to
meet !George again,
Muss Martha Date and her brother's
son, 'Lloyd, are visiting in London,
KIPPEN
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey 'McLaren and
son, 'accompanied •byMr. 'Dan. 'Met -
ick daft Sunday for a few weeks' visit
in !Detroit,
Miss !Edna 'B'road'foot, ,daughter of
Mr, and 'Mrs. Ross 'Broadfoot, has re-
covered from her recent 'illness and.
is able to be out again.
Mrs. L. Clark has returned home af-
ter having spent very Pleasant vats
a•tion the guest la her sister, Miss'.
Greta Blackwell, ;R.N., df -Buffalo.
Mr. and Mrs. Wmt. Chapman spent
Sunday the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert McGregor and family,
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Seaforth, Ont.
CONSTANCE
The congregational meeting of the
United Church was held in conjunc-
tion with the Sunday. school annual
meeting on Tuesday. 'Rev. Mr. 1Gardi-
ner, the pastor, was chairman for the.
evening.• The financial reports of the
different tranches of the clntrclt were
rear:, showing a very successful year.
Mr. George Addison was elected Sup-
erintendent of the 5,5. in place of Mr.
Charles Dexter, who had been super-
intendent far the past five years. lir.
Charles Riley, who had been secretary
treasurer for eleven years, retired, and
his place was tilled by -Mr. Will Jew-
itt, 'After the business was over the
ladies of the congregation provided -
lunch.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Adams visited
at the home of Mr. and lfrs. John
Mills of Harloek on lfonday.
Mr. anti Mrs. -Roy Lamson were
visitors at the hones of lir. and Mrs.
Walter Broacdfont and 71r, and Mrs,
Turnbull, all of Grey Township on
Monday.
The hockey team played a tie game
with St. Columbao on Saturday night.
The score was 4-4.
Mrs. Will Leeming of 7Mel<Woo
is spending i fete days at the (tome
of b r. 'Ross 11eGregor this week.
-lar. Lorne Lawson was visiting hi•
sister, Mr.. Busby and alt. Bushy,
at Chatham, for the week end,
- The Club of -Progress held its first
-Literary .meeting of the year in the
school house on Friday evening with
President Jack Kellar presiding. The
minutes of the meeting previously
held to reorganize for the winter
months were read by \Miss Doneida
Adams and adopted as lead, The fol-
lowing took part in the program; A
solo by Miss Chalmers, accompanied
by lids 'Helen Britton; a Salo by
Kelso ;\r !ants, accompanied by 71rs.
Jack Ferguson; a musical scleeti' 11 'hv
the 11 add family. 'Che main feature
of the evening was an instructive ad-
dress by the Fla•ron-Agricultural Rep-
resentative, lar. Ian !McLeod, 11.S,_\.,
of Clinton, which was enjoyed by all.
\ humorous reading by Miss 'Daneirda
Adams; a solo by Miss Clete !tech!,
accompanying herself on the guitar.
ler,
Ernest Adams gave an interesting
talk on bird life; a piano sola by Miss
Helen Britton, 'The Kin'buln News
was read by lir, R. MacGregor, The
meeting: was brought to a close by
the singing of the national anthem.
''hose responsible for -the program
were Mrs, !J, !Ferguson, bit's, Earl
Lawson and'W'illiam ,Dale.
BRUCEFIELD
The regular meeting of the W.A.
of B:ru•cefield United Church was held
in the church 'basement 'on Jan, 6th.
The :first part was spent in ,patching
quilt ,blocks. 'rhe devotional exercises
were conducted by Mrs, H. Aiken -
head, Then Mrs, Elliott, our new
president, took the chair tor .the .busi-
ness .part, It was decided unanimously
to 'give the 'Managers ,fifty dollars to
pay the church treasurer's salary.
We are very pleased to see,Aft.
John. Grainger able to he up town
again after his -long illness,
Mr. and Mrs. L. Cummings and
children of Walton spent Sunday with
Mr, and. T. Wheeler.
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ANDREW A. MOORE, r;r,3, Seaforth, Ont.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, t93.
ltnmua i'nle, tr ^wAeekirtx here
ut ,rn ttion, ono Writ+ should be as
absorbing to u. as another. whether
it dead: itit !Neu. York City or Lap-
land, with the lou';, ragged spine of
the Andes ur with the streets of an-
cient 'R'ome, IF'or always it should do
for us at least one of these three
things:teaeh us something ave 'have
not known, help us to remember -what
we have 'forgotten, or force us to im-
STANLEY
The ioltl'owing is a report of the re-
sults of the Christmas- examinations
in 'S.S. No. 7, Stanley, Numbers indi-
cate percentages.
V.-1largaret Love 82, Ivan Steph-
enson 714, tGcft•don Johnston 73.
Sr. I'V,-1Rtuth 'McAllister 7,6. Mar-
garet Reichert 67.
Jr, IV. --jean 'Love 70, Bobby Reid
7(1, '.Karl 'Reichert 66,
Jr. 1.11, ---Ralph Stephenson 619, El-
len Love 66.
Ii.—Ella Reichert 716, .Orville Au -
bin 187, 'Donald Tully S0.
I. 7oltn A'uhin '118, Veronica Attrbin
518. 'Primes -- Dorothy Gunter 80,
Charles 'Reid 79, ,Neil Tully :716.
V..Dimtin, Teacher.
LONDESBORO
The Women's Institute stet in th
Cunun-ttnity -Hall on Thursday last.
The 'president, Mrs. E. Adams, was
in the 'chair. The roll call was answer-
ed by 'jokes,' Rev. A. W. 'Gardiner,
the guest speaker, gave a very fine ad-
dress on. "i'eace," which was most in-
teresting. 'l'he meeting throughout
vat enjoyed by all, At the close a
dainty lunch was served by the host-
esses in charge and a short social
time was spent over the teacups.
hiss Bnula Kirk of Toronto visited
at the (tome of her sister, Mrs. \V.
'.yon recently,
(Mite a number are on the sick list
at present, lir. J. D. Melville is quite
ill, Nis, 'George Barr is slightly im-
proved in his .condition, Several others
are also quite poorly.
11r, James Shobbrook of 'the '!lith
con. is very ill with slight hopes of
his recovery,
The (United Church will hold their
annual congregational meeting on
January 21st in the afternoon. All are
asked to attend this meeting. Bring
lunch.
Mrs. E. Wood -has taken the posi-
tion a, organist for the ,church.
Born. --In 'Clinton Community 'Hos-
pital, to lar, and Sirs, 'Teel Pickett, a
sten, on January 1st.
KIPPEN.
71rs, Rev. Chandler is spending a
steel: visiting with her parents in'Ot-
tawa.
11r. Howard Clark matte a bttsiuess
trip to Montreal recently and enjoyed
his maims very mucic.
Nis,. \\', W. Cooper has returned
from London after a pleasant visit
itit friends,
Hiss Sarah Daytnan has been quite
poorly recentlyunder the doctor's
cart,
Mr. and firs, :Harvey McLarnon
are spending a couple of weeks in
Detroit visiting their many friends.
ONTARIO FIRE MARSHALL
Proposes a Distinctive Uniform Ring
to be used on Rural Telephones
for Fire AIarms,
;The Province of Ontario continued
to slhow a decrease in fire losses Bur-
in the last ,qu'ganter of 11191.316. The final
figures will be subject to revision due
to differences in estimated losses and
the actual losses in 'fires 'that have
not yet been a'dljusted,'However, it is
clearly evident that the 11191316 losses
will be substantially less than in the
previous year, and twill thus sot a 'new
low record since the (fire losses Of the
province have! been tabulated, This
result has been realized in 'Ontario .in
contrast -to the [latest reported official
agine what we ,have never seen.
The instruction inttp'l cit itt any
neap whatsoever is remarkable com-
plex, yet unified. Suppose one should
set down- ,before a tthoughfui boy a
map of ,Europe on which nothing 'bu'1
the- !pihysiograp'hic features—motto-
tains and rivers, capes and bays and
estuaries, minerals and soils—were
shown, and 'suppose him allowed to
:brood over it tor a long time, to copy
it by 'hand more than once and to
model it in relief, .until ,finally he had
it by heart, And then. when this pic-
ture of itature's 'Europe was at last
completed, suppose one should give
hint a map of Europe as she is today
—that is, a picture of what man has
made of .her with his roads and ,brid-
ges, his mines and canals, .his ttlths
and granges (and all his glittering
cities. 'The second picture would be
no surprize to that boy, for he would
see only the logical 'prolongation of
the first, Acid man to those motut-
ttins and valleys he - already knows
so well, and all the rest would natur-
ally follow. He would know where
the great roads had to run and where
the great cities could not fail to lie,
You would scarcely need to describe
to hint the political institutions of
Switzerland or of Russia, and the in-
vasions of old IRonte he would take
for granted And that toy, thence-
forth, would never think of geology,
history, commerce and culture as sep-
arable things. but as threads nt one
closely woven fabric, Such is the
teaching ,of reaps.
And they are good for rembrances,
ton, n'lten they help us to theead with
the swiftly traveling eye some valley
that we once explored on foot, or
lift us again - to that -hill-top whence
we looked out across the colored
counties. A Wrap is the short hand of
landscape, and a memorandum both
of thoughts and of moods, When I
read the word ".Paris" on the neap of
Europe. rope. it is the gaunt worn face
Notre Dame that 1 see. and the busy
little bookstalls by the Seine, "Ven-
ice" brings me the chock -a -clock of
sunlit ripples against tete gondola's
prow, and all the barely credible ir-
rirlucence of that thousand -year-old
bubble. Or perhaps 1 read "Catalina
Island," and then I hear the .small
lambs bleating far off among the hills
and the bellow of ,tea Haus from the
beach.
Bu't d think tate best kind of map -
reading is the imaginative. -Haw often,
having had enough for the time of my
own Connecticut, I have clamered
aboard my 'Atlas and sailed up two
thousand miles of the Congo River—
mighty name—until 1 came to Kon-
golo, and there disembarked and
.plunged into jungles with my black
companions, struggling forward on
the trails of !Livingstone and 'Stanley.
with the elephants at gaze from the
swamps and 'thirty monkeys in every
tree, until I saw from a summit the
six -hundred -mile -long sparkle of Lake
Tanganyika and - guessed out the
channel of the vast Zambesi and
heard, from far away, the everlasting
thunder of the Victoria dulls! and
then, after such a ten minutes in
,Equatorial Africa, it needs only a
brief ruffling of the pages to chill the
fancy on the ice plains of Siberia.
Oftenest of all, however. I go to 'high
Peru and Central America, and espec-
ially to Popocatapeti—partly, no
doubt, 'because of its lovely name, but
aS`so because it is a pile of climates.
Si, much, then, for the three high-
er uses of maps, with which almost
everyone must be familiar. Today 1
ha re been poring over a map that
combines all these uses. It is a small
map ,rf England, on which only those
places are teamed that have some im-
portance in the history of .literature.
London is here, of .course, but only
because it Inas always been England's
intellectual and literary capital. .Strat-
ford-on4A,von is here, too, not as an
important market-towwtt, hart for an-
other reason, On the other hand, sev-
eral cities of the north whose import-
ance is clue to their manufactures anis
their great size, do not show at all. I
find Liverpool set down, perhaps -be-
cause :Hawthorne served there as
American consul; Manchester could
not' be left ,Out because of De Quincey,
and (Norwich wins its place by the
help of-IGeorge'Borrow and Sir Thom-
as 'Browne.. \What chiefly deliglits me
in this map- is to find the names of
such tiny "pelting villages" as Twy-
ford in Hatn'pshfre, where iP•ope went
to school, as Nether Stowey in the
Quantocks where Wentworth and
Coleridge used to meet, and as Oare
iii Devon 'where john •R'id'd•grew to
his mighty stature, Even . Edison
'Heath, where nothing ,has . ever hap-
pened except in the imagination of
.store tires. It is particularly gratify-
ing tat report a considerable decrease
in :dwelling tires, not only as 'tn num-
ber hitt ;its., as to aggregate loss.
1>tu• educational campaign and the
liberal support ref the public press in
this -connection is evidently having a
favourable effect. ,
Arson prosecution ,anti convictions
have shown a very creat increase
er the previous years, due not so
much to any increase in incendiary
fires 'hut rather to increased efficiency
in the iurestigatioa and prosecution
of criminal cases arising out of 'fires.
In the year 119,36 there have been 3
convictions for arson adtt other .crim-
inal charges arising out of fires, in
which the Fire Marsall's Office has
been directly interested, in 'compari-
son with '215 during the year 19315.
Both of these figures 'include cases
handled by the Toronto !Arson Squad,
.composed crf 2 .members df the Tor-
onto City Police Force who Glave been
assigned to the FireMarshall's 'Of-
fice and appointed as District- 'Dep-
utt Vire \Sarshalds,
Excluding the Toronto \rant
Squad, the increase in proseetstions
from investigations directly under the
Fire \Iarshali Inspectors of the intes-
aill Jost, 'isesaattt tall tlttlsg its .140111
tighttion staff has shown an evert
tigation staff has sh'iwn an even
rear 114316 there were 313 convictions as
compared with 113 in :19315 and 15 in
1954 and 11 in 1933, The 'conticiiotts
in 19316 are 21 for arson, 0 for attempt-
ed arson, 11, for threatening to 'burn,
one 'fur fraud, 2 for theft from prem-
ises in which fires occurred, I for ;per-
jury, and 6 for negligently starting
fires. 'During the lance period there
were a total of ,116 acquittals, 'being
1111 on arson charges, I1 on attempted
arson and 4 on negligently setting
fires, and at the end of 11913E there -were
2 arson cases pending, 1 attempted ar-
eon and d' threatening to 'burn cases
awaiting trial. This is a conviction
percentage of approximately .69 'per-
cent, which compares most favorably
with the recard for the 'balance of
Canaria for the year 19315 of 1.34 per-
cent convictions.
In addition to the above criminal
cases the 'Fire 'Marshall's 'Office had
9
convictions for violation of - the
Lightning Rod .Act and 2 for failure
to comply with the ,Fire !Lar. halal's
.Act, with no acquittals.
'Thr Toronto Arson Squad during
119,316 had 3 convictions and 1 acquit-
tal with no cases ,pending at +the end
of the year. The reduction in criminal
cases in the City of Toronto reflects
the very sharp .decrease in fires in
certain districts and is a tribute to the
efficient work of tite Toronto Arson
Squad.
Earlier in the year, after conferring
with the executive committee of the
Canadian dnciependent (Telephone
:Association, we wrote to some 600
independent telephone companies in
On't'ario. We submitted a proposal
that all rural lines sihoudld 'adopt a
distinctive uniform ming to the used as
a fire alarm, so that in an enteitgency
prompt aid ,cou'id 'be summoned with
a 'minimum of delay, and invited 'cotn-
nsetnts and su,ggestfons. The respon-
ses were una,a3mb,ti , itt !faxor .of .a
mural •telep:hntie fire alarm, and th'e
'few con'panfes 'that 'had allready .adop-
ted a tflee alarm !reported, in lahmpst
every ,nese, that it had ,proved a etre
cess and hard 'beton the meatrs of
in'g 'tnauralble properties from loss by
fire. The ;proposal .was dater endorsed
by resolution at th
figures from United Sates which in- a annum .nteetin'g
gof the telephone association in T
dicate an increase of 715' percent in 'to bast 'October, 4p
fire losses [for 9191316 -over 'those of 19315.
The only increase in the four major
classes of risks is in respect to fav
MAPS
tor•
There is always pleasant
or -profit-
!es, but it is offset' almost tht•ei'Fold ab -le reading to be found in a map, of
by de=creases -in dweilitug, ,barn and w'hatev'er sort, if only one knows map
Iss
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THEATRE
SEAFORTH
NOW PLAY'IN'G
Anna Karinina
GRETA 'GARIB'O
FREDERIC MARCH
FREDDIE BART'HOLOME'W
The absorbing romance of two peo-
ple who forgot the world
Mon. Tues. Wed., Jan. 18-19-20
Petticoat Fever
ROBERT MONTGOMERYRNA 1 OY
A Comedy Romance in the colli
Arctic
Next Thurs. Fri, Sat., Jan. 21-22-23
Chained
JOAN -CRAWFORD
-CLARK GABLE
'Comedy, Romance and Thrills
COMING—"Little Miss Nobody."
JANE WITHERS, Child Wonder.
Thomas.Hardy, has its rightful place,
(Here then, is a neap in taihioh the pen
really shows itself mightier than the
sword and all 'other implements to-
gether.
!Turing the 'last half 'hour, while
sitting 'here tin my library and staring
at this -bit of colored and printed pap-
er, I have paid quite a number of in-
teresting calls. I started in 'far upthe
north coast. at Whitby. where I was
told that hoth Caedman and the Ven -
arable Bede were too busy to see me;
but at Wakefield I found 'Goldsmith's
vicar most hospitable and at ,Knuts—
ford Mrs, (iaskcll's ladies invited me
to remade toc tea. The Bronze sisters
when 1 reached Haworth, were all
nut walking on the moors. and their
.brothercould not he found, so that :I
darted down to Wilton and had a Few
minutes there with Sir 'Philip 'Sidney,
walked on to Bremerton and saw
'George Herbert in hit tiny house
across the lane from his stil'1 tinier
church, and then on to Salisbury
Plain where I found both W. H.
Hudson and Maurice Hewlett trying {
to make Joseph Addison understand :1
the peasantry of his native district.
Hudson suggested that I might like
a walk in Wales, and so we climbed
George Dyer'.:-Grtn.¢ar Hill together
and then flew hack to Gilbert \Vhite's
Selgorne.- Front there I started for
Jane Austen's Chawtnn, which is
hardly more than round the corner,
and said •something about visiting Sir
William Temple and Jonathan Swift
at floor Park: hitt Hudson did not
like any of these people and he re-
ntaitted behind, looking for birds and
squirrels in tete great shadow of Sel-
borne beeches.—:But the list of all the
lances and famous people I have seen
in these last few minutes would be' too
long, and I must -be content to say
that my journey diva not end until I
heard Keat's nightingale singing on
ilampsteacl Heath from, 'tate next 'val-
ley glades.
This bit of paper seem; to bring
all the makers of English literature
close together. as though they form-
ed one -small society. I ask myself,
as I study- :it, wily they should not
have visited each other—why Shake-
speare, for example, on one of itis
many journeys from Stratford up to
London. ;should not have 'waited upon
tate yntutg courtier called 'Geoffrey
Chaucer and ''tad with him, at one of
\Voorlstochs ancient inns, :apse of
the hest talk in the world. And here
is the village of Horton, where Mil-
ton mewed his nightly youth. hard-
ly ten utiles from Gray's 1'.tke Poges
and from S'h•elley's Great Marlow,
\\'hat :t hint there is in t -:tat for itt im-
aginary conversation!
'''heple were dose r+setter in
space, ansedpeoonly tine heard them anart;,
but time .is ignored by my tittle map.
50 I myself have ignored it in many
an actual (English journey, and so the
writers of England have_ long .been
able to da. The country is so compact
and the places of literary association
are so close together that, wherever
one goes in 'England, one has the
sense of hallowed ground. Whether
it is easier or more difficult to write
well in ,England, the homeland ,of
Keats and 'Milton and Shakespeare,
than it is itt 'Mada'gascar, at any rate
it is different, 'One 'knows, at least,
that great things have been :done
there, and so may be 'done again.
Wordsworth [felt This when he 'left !his
stiPl
unlettered Cumbenl:and and en-
tered Camb'rid'ge 'University, and.
Johnson telt it when he- went tap 'from
Lichfield to London. :Emulation, the
confidence that comes with partner -
.ship, the assurance thalt -Whatever one
oboes is ,contnubuted to a national
treasure—these things must not be
left 0111 of account in estimating the
l'i'terature of 'England. This !fact Was
taught me, or at any rate it .was made
clearer than it has ever 'been 'before
by my little map of 1England, which
is lus't'as good for teaching as it -is
for imagination, or for remembrance,