Daily British Whig (1850), 17 Nov 1911, p. 8

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ORK HAGD. [THEIR SAL TH FOR MY LIVING © AND NEED GIN PILLS 194 Gorpow 8r., STAPLETON, N.Y, |} ° 5 NR oem: A Fe ta " BisSHOP ¥A © REAL SPEAKS OUT. He Laments the Way in Which the Children of Canada Speak---Need For Improvement. Some mohths ago, while on s visit "Will you | to. Western Ontario, Earl Grey caus- kindly inform | ed controversy by depiloring the lack me and spent he imine: ere | Osnadians, and | of manners in Canadian children, To back his assertion he gave several instances showing bow childre was made more al at the Protest ntion, by a Cana- arthing. More than recently in ant Teachers' | dian +Shat, His in made a strong in. tment against the English used by ny urged the teachers to | wage war against the nasal intona- | tion so notice@ble in the people across i the border. E The statement attributed to the bishop is as follows: "Teach them to English, and to breath through 8 through their nae and seat em | some pi! to ris Sound then _ Epeel it pen atl c for hey and Radaet Jrouble, Oh! they did me so much good and I am 5° much better. I hope can fix it so n Pills in Fox I ¢an get Ci Yor, box, 6 for $1.50. write National i yon need a thing to Lazy Liver Pills, 28¢. a box. $00000000000000000000° Highest COAL OWL. S LUBRICATING OIL... FLOOR OIL, GREASE, ETC. © PROMPT DELIVERY. Toye's Building $0606000000000000000000 i CAARLES COLLINS. Sold everywhere in Canada at soc. = | Canad Sample free jf you | g and Cliemical C of Canagla, Limited, Dept. B. Toronic. ntle laxa'ive or some. | stir up the liver, take Nations Grades .F. KELEY* Clarence Aud Ontario Streets, 2 i S00 008EN0N0RECOBRGGIN" TRAPPERS FURS and we will pay you the rh 3 REVILLON PRERES 134-136 MoBILL STREET We will send free to every trap- por who sends 'us furs, our book "The Trappers Loyal Com- i | im Vancouver. dian girl. She through the He considered it regrettable that Canadian children should lack enl- ture and be unable to speak pleasing Bui, 3 clic Shit asd em ers to pt jlish boys a in their wifices, and which 0 if Canadians would _agquire a softer and more mu- eal intonation in their vowels. e had been greatly impressed by, the politeness of the , even in the country villages. 'When they con- trasted the boorishness of the bright faced English children with the won- derful courtesy of thé French chil. dren, much as he loved the English children, he thought the comparison was very disadvantageous to them-- | they were not nearly so. polite, The bishop, in an interview later, said that while he had used the words _atiributed-to him, they lost their cor. | rect meaning when Fed out and placed alone. He d "x to impress ;-on this teachers, he said, that the man. | nets of the English-speaking Canadian | were below those of the average Eng- lish child, and also inferior to those i of the French-Canada. He was struck, | he stated, as he traveled around, with the politeness of French children, while the bright-eyed children of ish-speaking le were | in respect. He wished to impress on 'the Protestant teachers that the npsdy lay with them. 2 : His lordship was reminded that Earl Grey once spoke on this matter, while on a visit to Toronto. re- that this was not the first tim e had drawn attention to'the defect for years he had been noticing the lack of manners in Canadians, and find several times expressed his views in public. He referred to:the average Canadian - woman, who, on being granted a seat in a street. car, in the | majority of cases would neglect to ter of forge quired. : . His lordship explained that when speaking of children talking through ¢ir noses, he had used the expres sion "even in the Eastern Townships'" jocitlarly. He did not wish to pick out any particular class of Canadian When addressing the teachers Bishopt Farthing gave an inélance of whers a business man ok "two boys, one English, the other Canadian. ot were faken into the ge Jeparataly uesticns: ir I - daked: yr the politeness of the English boy contiastet a markedly with e manners of the other. ; ne the guettion af 5 lish, Bishop arthing. e wing rhe English at the rank and file of the Canadian peogle, is superior to the English apoken y {he same rank in the old In England they have dialects whioh 4poil the purity of their English. Ini Ganads the general tone of the lsn- age is superior, yet there is a hness of pronunciation and a poornéss of enunciation. An effort should be made to improve the gen- eral standard. Recently 1 spoke of epunciation and said that the children should be taught to speak clearly and to give a soft vowel sound; they should not speak through their noses, apd thus avoid e nasal intonation." was Te In Example of Canadian Marchioness. "Keep it down to a paragraph any: way." ; 80 spoke a Canadian girl in Van- couver the other day. The ubiquitous | reporter was on her trail. he lady was the day's sensation orlety i es: y in an unusu ra a at title and she was traveling! A cily editor saw 8 good, thing: two , at Joost racy, slushy ste tbout pre Canadian girl who had married a British aristocrat, and was now tour- ing the world. = t when the r went to in- terview the M } of Donegal, nee Miss Violet Twi . of Halifax, found the With the satrance of the new Vie. Regal at Ottawa, newspaper wen snd othérs are digging up all sorte of mementoes of the Duke of Sonnaughts Jrevions ¥ x TT NG OF MONT-] say "Thank you Ib was sot a mats pe A MEDIAEVAL. CEREMONY. Seigneurial . Invesfiture Smackt of Ancient Chivalry. A most "interesting ceremony wok lace on the banks of the Chateauguay iver, a little over 40 miles. from Montreal, on Bundmy the 18th of July. It «was the feudal investiture of the «descendants of Lorais Hebert. the first Seigneur of Canalis (1626): of Conil. lard, Seigveur de, I. Espinay, of Louis Jolliet, ir of Anticosti (who discovered the sofurees of the Missis- sippi, and of Giodin, Beigneur de Beansejour de Beliéionteine, with tie Dorchester 'Decoration of the Empire and with the Sword, Sash and Bul ton (octefoil) of rank in the Aryan A igneurial Order of ithe Empire id America and College of Arms of Cabwda These descéndants were aceompsn-- ed by over 150 members of their re I families and, guests from spective t Mowrtesl to parti¢ipate with the Mer. | ald Marshal and the Commissioners | of the College of 'Arms of Canada in the ceremonies, In the temporary building, erected on an island of the Chateauguay, a throne was decorated at one end with the yellow colers of the Order wih the black two-heaged eagle displayed thereon. From a side entrance into thle large hall the procession of those who took part entered to the mu:ie of The Imperial Mass. At that part where is written dhe Imperial Hymn it was sung in Latin by some little girl descendants of the above Beig- teurs of New France, their clear, ~weet and thrilling tones recalled the days of old Norman Chivalry. There marched fizst in this Jove ion the bearer of|the Bword of State, he was followed one carrying the Sceptre of minlon, then came the Banner of the Order of the Empire carried high and, emblazoned on ils vellow field with 'the black two-head- 4 eagle of the Rmperor Charles V., who founded thisOrder in 1540. Un- der a canopy, on a litter borne by four beautiful girls, reposed the Crown of Empire with the Scroll of Laws tied with the yellow, blue, red aud green ribbors of the various degrecs of the College of Armas. . Then marched | inl. Awos, with their sashes, swords and octdfoils as marks of distinction, fifty members of the 'Beigneurial and banneret families. When they had all arrived at their places the Crown, Sceptre and Seriil were deposited in the grest seat of the throne. The officers and comm «. sioners of the Callege of Arms 17 ranged themselves about it. The audi. ence stoed® while *" God Bave the Em- pire" was sung in Latin. At this all drew their swords and gsmve the fir t, second snd third movements of tic Beignenrs' Imperal Salute, and at tv close of the hymn, by the fourth me) ¢- ment, the swords were returned to the seabburds. After further intere.i- ing and instructive histarical ceis. monies," those who 'were to receive the Sword. Bash, Octoloi) and Decorati m of the Order of the Empire stood in line facing the throne. Ome of the Commissioners of the Oollege of 'Arms put 'on the Bword and Sash, another {ianed the Octofoil while the. Hers!d arshall affixed the Decoration. Among the officers of this: Order, besides the Duke of Veragua, who bs. the first fief of the Empire in America. is the Baron de Longueuil, Chane! lor and: President of the Beigneutial Council of Oanada;-the Viseount. de Fransac, Herald Marshal, the Hen. Thomas Scott Forsyth, Registrer-Gen- eral; Sir John Calder Gordon, Selisi- tor-General ;; Dr. Joseph Gaston Bail. lie - Bulloch, ' Presayvant; "Williem Armstrong Crozier, F.R.8., Deputy Commissioner; Rev. John Burke Bite, M.A. Ist Commissioner; Henry Black Stuart, C.E., 2nd Commissioner; the Marquis de Puwvigny, representative in London; Lquis Denys de Bonaventure, Teplessqiutive in France, he estate at Huntingdon on the: Chateauguay, where these oeremoniss had taken place, was once the pro. perty of Laird Anderson of Scotland, and had been hamored in 1860 by a visit from H. R. H. thea Prines of Wales ( late King Edward VIL.) when he was in Oanada, and one of the ladies presemi--Madam Bertram Pinel de L'Espinay, had visited the present King George .V.. hy Royal Appoint. ment in September, 1810. = Who's, Fault? What 1s the meddter' with Canadian Museum men? The American Museum of Natural History in New .York has just stolen a march on them. ; For two seasons, Prof. H T. Os borne, predidemt of the New York in, stifution, Dats Jed parties, of distin guisl geologists a ethynologists into the valley of the Red Deer River, Alberta. These men have made big finds ac. cording to report. They have ship. ped an early world monster's remains --aixty feet in length--to their mn seum. - { It is rumored. that they have got their hands on a dinosaur, one of the earliest and.most valuable historically of the 'big auiimal life, which used to ran loose before man his bow to he. world. bo > ese Americans, who are taking imens fgam Canada to place in the New York Museum, have the per mission of the Canadian Government to carry on their work along the Red Deer. \ Canadian scholars know of the ex- isténce of prehistoric rémains in Alberta valley. La r -Duties of the Man Who Compiles 1 "Votes and Proceedings." A The two most important officers of i the House of Commun: who are not bers of that body, like the Speak. but yes, or servants only, the of the House and the Tes. ! keeps the records of the | House; the other keeps order, parti- i eularly in those extremely rare cases w order can only be preserved ¥ em jorce, The Clerk's nosi- 18 more peaceful but more oper. He has to do s large amount of s d of a kind that must be well and with sbsciate correct. it would be practically use. Shey FpiaiTaas, 2 # i e tial qualification in a use is thorough knowl- rales of Parliamentary T £ ils ve ly interesting subject he sow from A to Z. The rules £3 i 8 = = Sg him, so that should others Stray from the prescribed - ¥ Fievsd i 80 important and onerous duties, b were also ornaments to the Hopre and I| éredits to our National Legislature. For many years the post w by, that student and experient Liamentarian, the late Sir John Bouri- ure is a Canadian suthority. ality by the Cabinet, the position be- ing one of the plums a Government a vacancy occurs of office. The present Clerk was ap- inteéd during the. earlier years of the Bourinot. : ing technically, or theoretical ly, the Clerk is appointed by Commis. sion under the and holds his office during pleasure-- virtually until his health or age no a him to perform his es. . He is the recording officer of the House. He thkes notes of the proceed. ings, of the acts performed by the se of fo use the words of an old v rule, he is "to make true en- tries, n brances, and journals of the "things done and passed in the House of Commons ; 'but it is-without warrant ihiat he should make min. utes of particular men's speeches." The old' English journals contained short re of debates, but this an- aient' rule relieved the Clerk of this difficult task. To-day, both in the British 'and "in the 'Canadian House, the reports of the debates, commonly known ss "Hensard" are made by the. ofeial reporters -- staffs of the most expert shorthand writers to be re. ik ; Clerk's utes are madeinp avery day npr and convenient form, are then printed, and are known 8s the "Votes and Proceedings. Gomprise a record of all the proceed. ps but omit. many of the Parlia- n forms, which' are given in full only in the journals, which are after close of a session. . Clerk has an "assistant, who takes minutes of the proceedings in Committee of the Whole, and calls off names of members on a division, while the Clerk checks the names on the roll, and at the end of the division spnonnges the number of yeas and \e. Assistant Clerk also reads cn you, proceditre. That complex - ing every form and ceremony, | step of procedure must he | ath--even the leader of the House, | usually 'the Prime Minister, or | iker himseli--the Clerk can as- | i over the rough spot, or di. ! fieit feet into the way they | m 4 year that position in | La os ¢ of €&mmons has | been ably filled by men, who not only | ai charged faithfully and well their | ut who | fillad | d Pars | % whose work om Parliamentary e Clerk is appointed, and in re- | HOW A NURSE USED oXQ _IN CUBES "OXO certainly saved the iffe of a little girl whom 1 nursed through TYPHOID. She waa very. seif-willed, and 'detested milk aud milk-foods.' 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