The Huron Expositor, 1920-12-24, Page 6DR. F. J. R. FORSTER X
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat A Novel
Graduate in Medicine, University of
Toronto.
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N this continent where pub*
Men so seldom engage in lit-
erary or artistic pursuits, we
do not often think of poli-
ticians as possessing •the finer tYPes
of mentality. Even in England,. there
is a tendency to distrust a man in
politics if he endeayors to do a little
subtle thinking. Over in. France, it ill
different. A man-.Imay be called a
"Tiger" in,. politics, and yet in his
leisure momenta he may write a play
or a novel without damaging hig
"tigerish" reputation. Over there,
they apparently do not think that a
bohny fighter must be a rough neck.
They realize that a man can be at
once intellectual and pugnacious..
The hurly-burly of politres did not
keep Clemenceau from trying his
hand at many forms of writing, Of
course, he was a journalist by pro-
fession, but he did not confine him-
self to scribbling about politics. Early
In his career he wrote a drama, and
from time to time he turned out a
short sterf:-. It Was while. Clemen-
ceau WAS fighting side by side with
,
Emile Zola in the Dreyfus affair to
clear the name ofenet innocent man
and save the honor of the French
nation that he found time to write
_his one long novel, "Les Plus Forts,"
which has recently been rendered in-
to English under the title "The
ntrongest." It might be Mentioned
In passing that Clemenceau is noth-
ing if not abreast of the time, and
quite recently he turned out a scen-
ario for a, moving picture - what
Canadian politician, from Hon. Ar-
thur Meighen to the Hon. E. C.
Drury, could or would do that?
L'France, "The Strongest" had
been reed, discussed and almost for-
gotten before it. fell into the hands
of the English translator. The author
had justified his stand in the Dreyfus
affair and had taken a noble part
in winning the Great War. • He had
been ler one briet hour the idolof
the French people, and had exper-
ienced the reaction that made it im-
possible for him to be elected Presi-
dent of the republic tha,t he had
served as Premier. So Much water
having flowed through the mill, one
might have expected tcr 'find "The
Strongest" dated, especially as it was
the work of a man whose interests
were so intensely topical when he
Was writing it. But oddly enough
the novel is so timely now thet it
might have been written since Clem-
endeau retired from active .participae
tie% in French politics. What is
more, some Of his own experiences
.might have produced the conclusions
to which he seems to come in the
story.
In France "The Strongest" has
pietarecl'the struggle between mater-
ialism and idealiein in the life of the
growing generetion in France. }Ie
shows two forces fighting to dominafe
the life of his central character. On
one side is delf-interest, success,
wealth and power, and on the other
truth, idealism and love. In the end
It is the nobler forces that are beat-
• en. Perhaps it is little wonder that
the novel ends in that pessimistic'
fashion, - for according to Clem- en-
ceaue even the French Church is on
the side of materialism.
Clemenceau evidently felt that 'he
had ended his story on a cynical note.
He accordingly adds an epilpigue
which Puymaufray thinks of Claudia
and her mother, with the conviction
that in the bring run the soul of the
mother will save the girl. The epi-
logue reads as follows: "In the soli-
tude of the ancient house, Henri de
Puyteaufray traverses his thoughts.'
They tare thoughts of defeat and of
victory. Some pride of love gives this
vanquished soul the brave hope Viat
there can be no victory against love.
The heat of the battle against the.
master of Claire, who became the
master of Claudia, is dissipated in the
calm peace of the soil. Now that
Claudia is far away, Claire has re-
turned. Claire, who by her own
strength will bring Claudia back in
time. Life, /hrough suffering, will
bring Claudia back .to love.
"Weakened by the struggle, he
gained strength to meet contrary
fortune. Claudia is already on the
way to forgiveness, en route for the
great return to him. Alas! the way
is long and hard, and perhaps he will
be dead before the, day. But he will
die with open arms. And even if
Claudia is not to return, may she be
forgiven. Love does/not measure its
strength against the weakness of the
strongest.
"Spring has come. The earth is re-
awakened, flourishing. Everything
feels the thrill of life and bears blos-
som and bud and flower and fruit in
an ecstasy of live. The earth sings
itself in the songs of its birds. It is
paradise regained."
The story is a heavy one, and a
mere outline of the central theme
only gives a partial ,idea of what it
contains. But to a Canadian reader,.
the most interesting thing about
"The Strongest" is the sidelight it
throws upon the character _and the
mind of Clemeanceau. Evidently the
strong man of France does not set
a high value on mere strength, with-
out soul.
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In only fourteen Chinese cities are
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ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
,Wornen constitute 73 per cent. of
the factory weekers in Japan.
Wage-earning women in Virginia
now number more than 225,000.
Lady Gobbold is regarded as the
best shot among British women roy-
alty.
Mrs. Juliette Low-, founder of the
girl scout pavement, is 70 years old.
Iowa wits the first state to &ect
women as county. school superin-
tendents.
Women in Japan are being urged
to wear cotton instead of the more
costly* silks.
Lenie Von M. Zesch, of San Fran-
cisco, is the first womlan to practice
dentistry in Alaska.
Mrs. ET. Streets is secretary -treas-
urer and manager of the Yakima
(Wash.) National Bank.
•
• Women's rights as we understand
them in this country, are: practically
unknown in Chili.
Five women were elected *to the
Lower House of the •Connecticut Leg-
islature at the last election.
• In Sweden a wife nes the right to
aeae her own family -name in con-
junction with that of her husband.
Of the 34;913 workers emplofed in
148 industrial establishment in Vir-
ginia, More than (inn -half are women.
.Since last May when the right was
granted by the Methodist Episcopal
church, fifteen women have received
Ecenses to preach.
Miss Ivy McCarthy, of Kirkeville,
Mo., who went to England as an un-
known, is now one of the most sue-,
cessful sculptresses in London.
• Miss Elizabeth Woods, of the Har-
vard Astronomical Observatory; has
discovered a new star -Nova, in.. the
constellation Sigittarius. •
The Countess of Warwick nas 30
monkeys which are given the freedom
of her home and spacious grounds
which surround her country estate.
In 1900 the female portion of the
Japanese population on the Pacific
coast was 22,3 per eentand in 1920
ie had ipereased to 42.7 per cent.
With a Californian's invention pho-
tographs of extremely large size can
be made from small negatives.
Miss M. Madeline Southard is presi-
dent of an association of women
preachers in the United States and
Canada that represents fifteen denom-
inations.
For the first time since the famous
Gobelin tapestry works were estab-
lished in France'back in 1664, women
are now being taught to make tapes-
tries.
Swimming suits worn by girl swim-
mers who compete in future Amateur
Athletic Union contests, must come
higher around the neck and be cut
with a due allowance for shrinkage.
It is no uncommon thing for Turk-
ish women to be able to speak half
the languages of Europe and to have
in additiori, a knowledge of ancient
Greek, Poisian and Arabic.
The round top of a table invented
by a Connecticut man can be folded
to form a Maltese cross or square.
Between January 1st and October
1st of this year there were 15,000
women in Pennsylvania out of work
because of labor disputes in the estab-
lishments in which they were em-
ployed.
- Approximately three times as many
Philadelphia high school girls go to
work in _business offices as those who
enter the teaching profession and go
for higher education after gradua-
tion. •
Miss Alice Deal, president of the
High School Teachers' Union'is lead-
er in the campaign which wi
llbe made
throughout the country for a general
riee in pay for the teachers of all
THE IIIIRON EXPOSITOR
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Two Englishmen Vasa
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of United States
{ And Now Give Impressions
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NCORRIGIBLE commentators are
the English visitors to •theeCnited
States. Like Dickens, some are
openly hostile; others are enthus-
iafitic. Many are at once friendly and
critical.
A. G. Gardiner, of the London
leews, author of "Pinphets, Priests
and Kings," has been giving. his
Ideas of America in the New
Republie,
"Down town" New York, the tip of
the tongue of Manhattan Island, ita-
g`
.• he married and unmanned women
in Colombia are distinguished by the
way in which they wear flowers in
their hair, the senoras wearing them
on the right side and the senoritas on
the It if
- Miss Mabel T: Boardman, secretary
of the American Red Cross and one
of the three commissioners of the
District of Columbia, has been 'awards
ed the -French Reconnaissance gold
medal for her work for France dur-
ing the war.
The Ship by Truck -Good Roads
essey contest, taken part in by
200 000 high school students, was
won by sixteen -year-old Katherine F.
Butterfield, of Weiser, Idaho. She
will receive a four-year university
presses him strongly. "There," he ex-
claims, "is massed the greatest group
of buildings in the world. They are
-like a gesture of power.".
"Generally," continues _Gardiner,,
"the great cities are untheatrical
enough. There is not an approach
to London, or Paris, or Berlin, which
offers any shock of surprise. You
are sensible that you areleaving the
green fields behind, that factories are
becoming niore frequent, and etreete
more continuous, and then you find
that you have arrived. But New York
and,'. through New York, America,greets you with Its most typical spec-
tacle before you land. It ascends its
topmost tower' apd shouts its chal-
lenge and its invitation. "Down/own"
stands like a strong man on the shore
of the 'ocean, asking you to come in
to the wonderland that lies behind
these terrific battlements." •
This lower New York is the "very
keep of the castle of Mammon." •
And in the midst of the great
fortresses of . commerce, two toy
buildings with tiny spires. .You have
been -in them, perhaps, and know
them to be large churches, St;
Paul's and Trinity, curiously like
our own' city, churches. Once New.'
York nestled under their shadows;
now they are swallowed up and lost*
at the base of the terrific etructures
that loom above them. 'Perhaps you
will be tempted to see in this inverted
world an inverted civilization. There
will flash on yotitemind's eye the vise
ion of the great dome that seems tb
float in the heavens over the secular
activities tot another city, still holde
lug aloft, to however negligent and
Indifferent a generation the symbol
of the supremacy of spiritual, things;
And. you. will wonder whether in this
astonishing spectacle below you, in
which the temples of the ancient wor-
ship crouch at the porch of these
Leviathan temples of commerce, there
is the unconscious expression of an-
other philosophyeof life in which St:
Woolworth and not St. Paul points
the way to the stars."
Then Gardiner, looking out beyond
New York to the great stretches of
hills and plaint; to thePacificcoast,
'ekes his cRessimiere. ,fle-thinks -of
'Lincoln an•41-iii-bOiiiident that, what-
ever the failures of America, "the
great spirit of Lincoln will outlive
and outsoakthe pinnacle of St. Wood-
worth." ' •
• _Whether true or not,- this comes
close to that sentimentalism which
Englishmen usually findin Americans
rather than In themselves.
Henry W. Nevinson is another
English publicist'recently in America.
"I 'have not found it true," he
waites in the Manchester Guardian,
"that American women are much bet-
ter educated and .more intellectual
than the men. Nor have I found that
they, spend their days in shopping,
eating candy, and listening to lee-,
tures, while the men are toiling to
death in the city's tumult. The men
do not toil to death any more than.
in other countries, though they make
more tumult about it. And the women
are not in comparison more intellec-
tual. The difference between- men
and women is much the same as in
the rest of the world."
He criticizes the American child as
"usually; a tiresome, whining and
plaguey little terror."
Nevinson satirizes the typical
American veneration for the Consti-
tution of the United -States.' It IS to
them the Ark of the,Covenant.
"Foreigners," he says, "perceive it
to be obviously obsolete -a form of
government fajely well designed by
predecessors of the French Revolu-
tion, but as much out of date as
Washington's gilded -sword. Yet if I
suggest the advantage of the melting -
pot, or even the smallest change in'
the creaking old machine, I hear a
gasp go round the circle as though I
had committed the sin against the
Holy Ghost."
' But Nevinson thinks there is
another danger to America's freedom
greater even than fear of the Reds,
or the adoration of the constitutional
idol. That is -space.
"The continent of the States," he
explains, "hi so vast that indignation
cannot concentrate. The Government
in Washington may Impose injustice,
but resistance to injustice -cannot
gather head. Seattle; San Francisco
and Los Angeles are too far from
Boston, New- York and Philadelphia
to muster their forces of indignation
and to strike together. Each state, it
is true, has its own Government, and
each Government is as capable of in-
justice as any other form of govern-
ment. But in each state the injustice
may be thwarted, as was seen in the
case of the Lusk Laws, passed at Al-
bany for the State of New York, but
vetoed amid general applause by the
governor of the state. When the cen-
tral Government's action ,affects the
whole continent it is a harder (matter
to organize resistance. It is almost
impossible for indignation to concen-
trate as it concentrates in London,
and so "that cold-hearted monster,
the state," as Nietzsche called it, goes
unchecked and even uncriticized up-
on its way to the brutish 'standardiz-
ation' of men and women."
A Log Bungalow.
A "log bungalow" of the war west
is made of cOn.crete cast in the shape
of logs with a little coloring enter -
nig into the mass, which makes the
appearance very realistic.
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English, Arabic and Hebrew have
been recognized as the official lan-
scholarship. guage in Palestine. •
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SCOITCH AND IRISH STORIE
A *crowd of us were sitting around
a restaurant table in Dublin. It WAS
onsa Friday, and as we had a Catholic
miest, with us we all ordered fish.
Just before we were served another
waiter brought a huge, juicy porter-
house steak to a man at the next
table. We all sniffed its delightful
aroma, as we were hungry and one
of our party signed audibly.
"Father," he said; turning to the
priest, "it's a darn shame that we
can't have a steak to -day!"
"Well," replied the good father,
"we could have if the apostles had
been butchers instead. of fishermen."
Mrs. Malone was about to bury her
husband. In fact, the body of Patrick
Malone was in a casket in the dining
room, when one of her neighbors
Terry Clancy, who had his eye on
the better half of the Malone -hauses
lhold, came in to pay his respects
and also press his spit.
"Would you like to take a last look
at Pat?" asked thee widow. "The
funeral is in the morning." .
"Sure," replied Terry. "Pl. be
'glad to.' .
Terry' went Over to the casket, rais-
ed the lid and not only looked at the
corpse but felt his cheek.
"Holy Mother," he cried, When he
joined the widow, "Pat is still warm!'
"Warm or cold, he goes out f
here.to-morrow," replied the widow.
There is a lake in the soutii of
Ireland that is so deep no one has
ever touched the botton. Several of
the young men who lived in the neigh-
borhood tried in vain to reach the
bottom but without success. One of
them, in fact, dived so deeply that he
never came up. But that did not dis-
courage his best friend from going to
his aid. • Tearing off his clothes he
dove into the waters and disappeared.
For months ,he was mourned for dead
along .with his pal. 'Then, one day,
his family.received a letter from him
postmarked Australia, asking them to
send his clothes which he had left on
the bank of the Irish lake.
An animal trainer had an Trish
valet and attendant who divided his
time between lookink after,the crea-
ture comforts of • his employer and
those of his animals. On a trip across
the Atlantic one of the animals, a
laughing hyena, suffered severely
from sea sickness. In fact, the trip
was so rough that despite the &in-
stant care of the keeper the animal
died. Pat was heart -broken, and
iniat was worse he Mtn% know how
to break the news to his master, ,
Finany he got up enough courage
to knock on his master's stateroom
"Is that you, Pat?" asked
door.•
em-
ployer.
"Yes, sir," replied the valet -trainer.
"Is everything all right, Pat?" ask-
ed the other.
"Yee, sir,". replied Pat, "except, sir,
the hyena didn't have anything to
laugh at this morning.",
An Irishman who was travelling on
a train was unable to produce his
ticket when the conductor reached his
seetI.
umust have lost it," he explained.
after making -a - thorough search- of
his pockets.
"But you couldn't have lost your
ticket," protested the conductor. -"It
must be in your pockets, somewhere."
"You don't know me," replied the
Irishman, "I lost a bass drum once."
Blasting operations were going on
in a stone quarry in Scotland ad the
men had been given the order to
stand clear. Through sortie mistake
one of the men who was deaf failed
to get out .of dangerous ground and
was severely injured by the blast.
Every one rushed to his assistance
and one man excitedly kept shouting,
"Sandy's head's blown off!" Hearing
this, a man on the outskirts of the
crowd came forward and full of agita-
tion exclaimed, "Poor Sandy's head's
blown off. Whereabouts is his head?
He was smoking my pipe!"
A Scot bemoaning the high prices
anddifficrilty of making both ends
meet, said, "Take even smoking. I
hate cigarettes. Cigars are too ex-
pensive, and even when a friend
offersyou his tobacco to fill your
pipe, you fill it so full and tight it
won't draw. Oh, thnre's always
something."
During the late war, a Highlander
got home for a few days' furlough
and after a long talk with his rela-
tives, casually remarked that he had
wen the V. C. a month before. They
all expressed surprise and asked why
he hadn't sent word to his old mother
about it. The sturdy Highlander took
another pull at his pipe and 'said, "It
wasn't ma turn to write."
Angus and Willie had got to the
top of a bus, and presently a pretty
girl also got on the bus. Angus said
to his friend, "Say. Wunie, there's a
lovely wee lass for ye, and what's
more, I'm acquainted with her."
"Weel, why don't -ye go over and
speak to her?"
"All in good titne," said .Angus;
"I'm just waiting until the conductor
has been around to collect her fare."
Old Andy had been playing golf for
years and years, but suddenly gave
up the game and sold his clubs. Every
one was amazed, as Andy was a most
devoted adherent to the game. but
very "touchy" about it. Finally a
close friend asked him why he had
given up his favorite pastime. Old
Andy, with tears in his voice, growl-
ed, "Eh, man, I lost ma "ball."
Robbie seldom wrote a letter 'or
bought a stamp, but his visits to the
post office were so frequent that one
day a friend plucked up courage to
ask him if he bought money orders
at the post office, or wilat did he buy
. that took him there so regularly, aiid
at least twice a week on the way to
his office. Robbie unblushingly re-
sponded, "1 don't buy either stamps
or money orders. 1 go there to fill
ma fountain pen."
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A designer of women's clothing has -
/WONG. the inn nierable SO". patented a sailor collar that can be
.
cieties whose functions were •converted into a hood.
Machinery has .been invented
suspended or diverted during in
Norway for nraking anchor chains
the war ils the Society for that are said to be as good as hand
Pure English, whieh has resumed the
activties it laid aside in 1914. It niadeA.succ' essfui erop of tobacco pro-
was
tihae:roeaxtfeo
result of suggestions ina.de by Robert
was fermed the year before as the dueed this 5Tar in Ramps:roe:2r_
;rdirDenicrYtiollnarriad; for sting -concrete bath and laundry '
in SEepnfriaanted.rnolds have been patented
lead to a revival of tobacco growing
of English literature, and L. Pearsall
Sir Waiter Raleigh, Oxford professor tubs, sinks and similar hou
turscesan.
dinavia's largest - bakery has
Smith, an authority on the history
been opened at Christiania, being able
of the English language. The obiect to supply the demands of 120,000
of the eociety is much the same cons daily.
per -
that of the French Academy, namely, - To refresh a wearer's memory, .1
1.0
to purify and at the same -time fortify finger ring has been invented with a
the language, to purge- it of vulgar- setting of celluloid on which memor-
isms and unauthorized foreign. impor--, and a can be written,
;pitons, and at the same timii to en- f Shoes invented in Japan 'for ath-
eourage the use of new words when letes separate the large toes from
properly introduced and when they the others to increase their wearer's
igr
ran show reason for their adoption. rip on the ound.
AJBFor sealing bottles a new house-
. . alfour, Austin Dobsp
it
and
hold tool resembling a pair of pliers
Thomas Hardy are among th e who
squeezes a metal cap into place and
early became members, Th society_
has recently issued three pamphlets,
makes it air tight
ttnd will continue from time to time ;
, A power barge with its propeller
: -
to publish tracts concerning its aims i so• enclosed that its waves do not
and decisions1 wash canal banks it the invention of
It is interesting to note that the an English engineei.
society believes its most important . -
Having leather faced jaws an illi-
citly will be the education' of those .
plement has been invented for shatp-
who now presume to glish ed•ucate languageothers
in
ening safety razor blades by draw
t of h
-
regard to the En. -
I
ing them between its jaws,. refers to "the tyranny scool-
Triplarte in type a, new Italian air -
masters and graraniarians,
bot,
in r
plane has a wing spread of only 13
their pedantic conservatism anin
feet and is driven by a 34 horee-
power six-eylinder engine.
"With the idea that it bends with
the wearer's foot and, therefore,. ie -
more flexible; an inventor has patent --
ed a jointed ice skate,
Because experiments have shown
wood -cellulose to be a valuable cattle: -
feed the Swedish government is en-
couraging its manufacture.
Weighing a ton and - a half, a
leather belt built in Philadelphia to
transmit 1,000 horsepower is said to
be the largest in the world.
As Spitbzergen sometimes is isolat-
ed from the rest of the world for
eight months at a time it has been
provided with a. radio station.
A paper covered binding twine that
has been invented for harvesting ma-
chines permits the use of a cheaper
filler than the usual twine. .
Of Swedish invention is a bicycle
tire consisting of a strip of hardened
_ steel fastened to the rim of a wheel
with a number of springs, -
An inventor has given a baby car-
riage a handle upon which can be
slipped' a muff towarmthe hands of,
a person pushing it in cold weather.
An. electric advertising sign invent-
ed in France is 'so mounted en a
man's- hat as to be practically in-
etisibIe•when theCtirrent is turned off,
DECEMBER 24, 192
•
-NEWEST NOTES OP SCIENCE
Lined with leather a metal tube
has been invented for • rolling urne
brellas tightly and neatly.
Sweden has more than 12,355,900
acres of peat bogs from much of
which fuel Call be ;attained,
their ignorant enforcing of new-
fangled rules, based not on principle,
but merely on wheelies tome to be
considered correct usa.ge." Com-
menting approvingly on these words,
Prof. Brander Matthew i says: "Many
of the textbooks and many or the
teacher p of grammar are ignorant,
pedantic and, tyrannical. . It is high
time that men who love the language,
-who can use is deftly and forcibly,
and who are acquainted with the
principles and processes of its growth
should raise the standard of indepen-
dence." lie speaks about the learned
outcry against the split infinitive, and
says there is no sound reason why
an author should not split as many
Infinitives as he pleases. Scores of
the bdst writers have chosen to do so
on occasion, and once Daniel Webster
deliberately revised a speech and split
an infinitive to good effect.
We can remember, toele.how Kip-
ling's "Recessional" was criticized by
fourth form snips and kindred au-
thority because he wrote, "The
tumult and the shouting .dies," 1 in-
stead of using the plural verb, and
the assumption was either that Kip-
ling was in ignorance of this rule or
that he chose "dies" because it was
a rhyme for "sacrifice." As Prof.
.-Miittliews points out, anyone -who
r‘cilled' thitt. "moth • and rust doth
corrupt" Might have known that
Kipling had not broken the tables of
• nee law. Kipling has figured in many
literary controversies in the past 25
years, and *e do not recollect an
instance where he has been caught
napping. On the other hand, John
Galsworthy, in whose writings is to
found a. quality of beauty un-,
equalled by any contempotnneous
novelist, makes frequent errors in
grammar that most school children
would avoid.
More- painful still are the affects. -
tions which insist upon spelling ' in
italics words that are obviously of
foreign derivatiOn, but which shieve
become thoroughly naturalized. Prof.
Bliss Perry says: "The fine arts dif-
fer as media of expression." Why
couldn't he say mediums? :Why does'
Galsworthy say "curricula" instead
of "curriculums"? They are correct
enough, but somewhat affected. Prof,.
Matthews vreuld ;ike to know what
advantage "repertoire" and "comser-
vatoire" have over "repertory" and
"conservatory," ot wherein the re-
cently discrered "questionnaire" ex-
cels the s und old English "inter-
rogatory." ' If- the French word is to
be retained it might well be English -
ed as "questionary," as have teeny
similar words in the past.
The Society for Pure English aiso
advocates the making of new words
compounded not of Latin or Greek,
but of English, and _also the accept-
ance of certain slang expressions
after they have become sufficiently -
matured. Such words as wind-
jammer, loan -shark, scare -head and -
pussy -footed are admirable examples
of newly coinei words that have defi-
Initely taken ttheir places in our
tongue, though they may not yet be
recognized by all the dictionaries.
, Says the society's tract: ,
"Believing that language le, or
ehould be, democratic, both in char-
acter and origin, and. that its best
wordmakers are the uneducated and
not the educated classes, we would
prefer vivid popular terms to the
artificial creations of icien.tists. We
shall often do better by inquiring,
Lor instance, not what name the, in-
ventor gave to his new machine, but
what it is coiled by the workers -who
handle it; and in adopting their'
homespun terms and giving them
_ literary currency we shall bell) to
,preserve the living and popular char-
acter of our speech."
'Auetralia's Rabbit -Fence.
Stretching across Western Austra-
lia is a rabbit -tight fence, said to be
the longest in the world. it extends
for a distance of twelve hundred -
miles without a' break , except for
gates. _ It begins in the temperate
regions and ends in the tropics, and
sometimes for nearly a hundred miles
it does not pass a humen habitation.
The fence is divided into sections,
each of 'which is under the control
of an inspector. These inspectors
have boundary riders, whose duty it
is to constantly ride up and down
their section of the long barrier and
keep it in effective condition. Since
the fence las erected it has prevent-
ed hordes of _rabbits froni over -run-
ning and devastating the region. be-
yond.
ese
Instead of blasting powder a
Georgia quarry is using compressed
air to splite granite.
^
A Dinner at Meta.
In his latest book, "Memories of a
Marine," Sir George Alton, the vet-
eran sailor who has been a pioneer
In assisting to develop the defence
ideas which proved triumphantly
successful during the last five years,
describes a tour on the battlefields a
1870-1, and incidentally levee an. ac-
count of a dinner at Met&
"For the last two days a the
tour," he writes, "we put up at
hotels in Mets, and on our last niglit
we were -invited to dine with the Ger-
man cavalry regiment in the town.
itwas an experience which at my
present age I should be sorry to re-
peat. We sat down to dinner at 5.3*
p.m and roe from the table at 11.311
-with exteptions. The German offi-
cer who had sat on my left was liter-
ally under the table. 1 had read
novels about people going- under the
table, at dinner, but b.ad never seen.
it happen, and on' this occasion I
confesa that I did not notiee his dis-
appearance, because I was talking to
my other neighbor; When I turned
round the convivial one had silently
slipped away, and I did not realize
where he had gone for some minutes.
"It was not considered a regular
drinking evening, so we were let of
lightly. Only two officers sent round
formal messages that they wished to
drink with each of us, but I believe
that sometinies\every officer used to
do so, and 'each toast :had to be
drunk with no heel -taps; you had. to
reverse your glass after. drinking to
show that there was no deception.
My neighbor on the other side wee
most interesting, he lied ridden in
Bredow's charge at Maes -la -Tome
where it is claimed that about 6e0
cavalry put a hostile army corps out
of action. The disappearance o my
left-hand neighbor called my a, en-
• tion to my own wine glasses; of which
'there were at least six, intended for
,
various liquors; one was full of ex-
• and
celJent burgundy, one of thampagne,
nothee of beer,
"When the party broke up most of
them went to a beer hall or cafe to
411iSil the evening, but some of tie
succeeded in getting away to bed."
A Queen's Confession.
Among the treasures Of Belvoir
„Castle is a "Confession Book," with
a page filled in close on thirty years
ago by Queen Alexatdra, then. Prin-
cess of Wales. "My favorite queen,"
she wrote, "is Dagmar; king, Richard
Coeur de Lion; hero, Marlborough;
poet, Shakespeare; artist, Rubens;
author, Charles Dickens; virtue, char-
ity; -color, blue; flower, forget-me-
not; name, Edward; occupation,
playing the piano; amusement, rid-
ing; chief ambition, not to interfere
with, other people's business; thief
dislike, slander;favorite motto,
Honi soit quit mai y pense."
Row Cement Sticks to Iron,
, The adhesion of ceitent to iron
'that gives strength to reinforced con-
crete, is found by an expert to be
unlike the gluing effect of mortar on
bricks. The eement does not stick to
the iron firmly, if at all, but the
adhesion is given by 'gripping a por-*
Hon of enclosed iron AS the contrete
contracts in setting.
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in taste
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