THE DAILY BRITISH WFIS, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27, 1912. I bad crept stealthily into her checks) CENSO EXT i : i . tand that the man on the stage must' BOOK ENSOR X ? gas be seeing it. | Bri : 1 Fes You'll Remember wef Not iil the snd of the ascond ai, | British Authors Up In Arms Against iwhert he kuoew that he hed succeeded | the Latest Bogey. 'even bevond his owu hopes did Uor-| At the very fime when the well. don Trevor send a wole to ihe girl Withers of the British drama are pre- "who had accepted his Sowers. { paring a petition to King George for pf 3 : abolition of thé theatrical censor. | 0 EM If jt does not wéem lke Prosusid" & ship, authors are threstensd by a LORDS OF THE MANOR They Were Once All-Powerful England. Rural England is studded liberally with manor houses, Almost every vil lagy owns one, either a genuine an Ie SUCCESSFUL MOTHERHOOD BRASS, BRONZE OR ALUM- INUM CASTINGS Prompt Delivery. -- Qa, It FRASER AVE. - TORONTO By DOROTHY DOUGLAS, : means more than a fat baby. 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She gazed with seeing eyed, into the great court the rear of the and nibbled the thoughtfully. "1 want to marry him and I dont! want," she told herself with un! smiling eyes. - "lf only he could learn to love music 1 believe---no--1 am posi- | tive | would marry him. Music i§ the | greater half of my life and Jimmy is unutterably Na if any one 'wave Harry Lauder is a Rig Alice heaved a sigh and turped again to her desk. A spotless bit of monogram paper lay veady for her' answer to Jimmy Blake, She dipped her pen in the ink and again nibbled the end of it. Suddenly her head turn- ed and she listéned. A voice of wonderful baritone | grander bad burst into song. The pen in Alice's hand dropped in- differently and she stole into her room by the open court in a desire to! un at apartment building ' end of her pen; Fortunately her window was partly open and Alice sank down on her enjoyment. In the recess of her mind was the thought that a new tenant, had moved into the apartment and] that she would have the pleasure, if stolen, of hearing him sing often. Her critical ear told her that the voice, though of warm, rich timber, was lacking in the minor technicali- ties and finish that would have put himy on a level with the great Caruso. day," Alice decided, him practicing." Then over her enjoyment of the music came the certain knowledge that windows were being opened in "and 1 will hear It flashed upon her suddenly. The man was a street wi and those le were throwing him money. ice jumped and thrust head far out of the window. "Yes! There he is, and I can see only the op of his head." 1 The men been singing the more popular arias from the operas and when he bad finished the Flower Song from "Faust," Alice watched him stoop to pick up the many little white packages that had been thrown to him. In a panic lest she be too late she rushed to her desk and took the first hit of paper she found. Into the en: velope she thrust a bill with a yellow back and threw it hastily out of the window. The man would bave been gone a second later, but he heard the girl's voice calling, "Here !" He turned back, picked up the envelope, and when he saw the denomination he looked quiok- ly up at the window acd for a mo- mers Alice. fooked into his sen- sitive, emotional face. With his hat still in his hand then he sang the most beeutiful of the 'Bohemian Girl" grias. "Then You'll There il he girl! were | tears in the girl's and an ache in ber throat when his voice so poignantly sweet its her Alter be had gone Alice did not ve tan to the desk. Instead, she lay lof a time dreaming of the street BlngePy voies, "No," she decided finally, "1 cannot Jimmy Blake. 1 want to roam e, sod Jimmy . unary od when Jimmy received the note that Alice sent him he went out to he race track and came back thr ysian fields thal swayed fantastical ly and had a tendency to rise up make his great gray racer turn turtle he careened over the roads. ts that ismiseed Jimmy Blake from her trail of fol- lowers. Perhaps, after all Elysian fields were only i to roam in when there was one other to share them, She '.ad spent many vain hours i an. effort to the man whose queror when he took Alice's ! | Vithio his own hand and the girl was draw nearer the man's vaice, | { ¢ouch in ap abandonment of exquisite, "He is no doubt studying night and many of the apartments on the court. | sobbed | last appealing line, "Then you'll re-|Where companion in and | her han fondly he murmured : {elear, cold eyes, as she replied thou i Hat. "lat Constantinople, "full and uninterrupted view of tion," he had written, 'I would like to take you to supper to-night." i And when the curtsin bad down with a storm of louse and New York hed welco a great baritone, Alice Lange waited with quickly beating heart for the man who bad sung in the streets. : | The scout of flowers from the dysian fields was In her nostrils | ait Alice drew a great breath when eho stood face to face with Cordon Trevor. ~ His face wos "as sensitive as ment window, but now there was certain sense of happiness from it, a radiating | peculiarly zlad that the charm voice had for her was duplicated Pris in the man himself, \ course remember vou," she; "Y of said quickly and a trifle nervously. "You deserve all the praise--"" Gordon Trevor stopped her a deprecatory gesture. "It was you who finally made my study on the continent possible your generosity sent me ahead {just when 1 needed it most." Trevor was piloting her into her own automobile, and when 'she was comfortably weapped in furs he sank down beside r. with "1 am curious," Alice asked a little breathlessly because his mastery was hegioning to make itself felt. . "how you happen to remember me?" "That was not dificult," he said in a low voice. "Your face, as it ap peared framed in the window above me, has always remeined in my- vision. As for your name -- it hap pened to be on the envelope which you thrust--"' ' Alice stopped him quickly, "1 ymember--it was the envdope from Jetter | was preparing to answer," Suddenly she looked into his eyes snd leaned confidently nearer him. *Po vou know Mr. Trevor--that vou saved me frog merrying the wrong man--by your voice?" "Then vou'll remember we," vor sang Woltly, "will you not?" All Womanly Essentials. Miss Baden-Powell, who is playing the leading part in the organization and government of the Girl Guides, claims that the movement provides in< dueements for its followers to become proficient in all the womanly essen- tials. She believes it will bring out most useful qualities, inculcate 'healthy habits, and stimulate kind- ness and "'camaraderie" to all around them. There are others, like Lady Massie Bloomfield and Maj. H. T. Stafford, who look upon the movement as =» blessing to the state, insofar that it has found an occupation for the leis ure time of work girls of an impres- sionable age, who, in numerous cases, up to now have been thrown entirely upon their own resources. Instead of congrogating at street corners disonss- ing the latest variety shows, the girls now go to their local "headquarters" they receive instruction towards their comprehensive equipment as Guides. When they ere not at "head- quarters" they may be seen at exer cises in Hyde Park or on Hampstead Heath to their physical, mental, and ethical betterment. re- a Tre- Not to be Wasted. in the soft firelight even the board in sitting room comy abd asttractive. 'The warmth and comlort thawed the heart' of the "star" boarder. In en ex ive. moment he turned to the landlady, who was ifs only the room. Grasping "Will you be my wile The woman did not start or blush; no maidenly coyness shone from her ghtially : "Let mo see. You have been four Luis. You bave never fre A the Joad, or failed to pay my bill pr tly and without geestion. No, er I'm sorry, but 1 easnot marry you You're too good a boarder to be put on the free here once Laughter Forbidden. The manager of one of the thealres has this notice ed in the auditorium : "In order all ticket-holders may have a the remitted" the management hos the by-law fat avery cecupying positions in the first shall Ye down during next threes rows similar y. * The well-kept secret came out when a deputation of 'publishers and news- paper editors wa upon Home Sec- retary McKenna to protest against the circulation of was left to Edmund Gosse to point out that not a single sathor was in- ¢luded in the deputation, an extras- ordinary omission in view of the ne- ture of the protest lodged with the Minister of the Crown. The Home Becretary promised s when' more ri forceme she bad looked down from her apart! DA ra Bg of the present law in to the suppres- sion of demorsli literature, and expressed the hope that the bill which He was very much the con-! had been drafted to earry out the hand! recommendations of the Joint Belect Committee on this subj would shortly become law. In , the re- commendations of this bill will con- stitute a literary censorship, quite spart from the amateur censorship established by the various large lend- in> libraries in 1908. 14 is the duty of the police to prose cute the vendors of obviously chscene books, a duty that has been rather ted in recent years, and the Home Secretary is now conferring with Sir Edward Henry, the Commis- sioner of Police, with a view to speed- ng up police action. : 11 reputable authors are anxious to make common cause with the auth- arities in the su seion of poisonous print. What authors are afraid of is alals with the feariéss development of fiction along new and unconventional lines such as H. G. Wells is identified with. As the most effective censor- ship is public opinion, most authors fool it would be a retrograde step to establish a kind of Star Chamber, where books could be suppressed be- fore they had received the verdict of the readers. The Home Becretary forsees culties, for he said, "The great stumb- ling-block has slways been the argu- meniative person who wants to draw a rigid Kine between the artistic and the obscene." In other words, there is & danger, if the pew bill becomes law, of Be Titelstute being i to merely "g goody" susceptibili- ties. If Mr. Me a is granted fa- cilities for his bill during present overloaded Parlia session, the spokesmen for the authors in the ouse of Commons, such as Sir Gil- bert Parker and Stephen Gwynne, will put up a good fight to keep tha literary craft free from undue official control. Thére is also a censorship Jropased for picture Shenton, bat in roposal meets with support from all reputable men concerned. Lioyd-George Smiles. I$ is to Julius Caesar the' spinsters owe their gratitude as the inventor of ] Year, although it was left to St. strick of Ireland---so legend records pvp ved A fn Bg of making Leap ear Jiopassls to men of their choos- ing. But even Julins Caesar, in his * of ealendsr calculation, am, bre dreamed i ng an.ex day to every fourth year d make come to the little island €o Bome idea of what Leap Year rally means in mod- concerned, may following figures. The extra day of Fr a is and ex . upon the snnual trade returns of the United Kingdon. - During the working houra of Leap Year Day, Feb. 29, something His $200,000.00 will through that centre of banking world the London Clearing House. The Chancellor of the Exche no doubt tubs his hands when he thinks of Year Day, for it implies the following approximate increases in some the revenue collecting deé- te: St, a I aes ane on 130,000 of Sauiee, there are ahhvional = penses for one more day, bu 's balancs-sheet receives rough- 3 OB, the day, $400,000 upon the cre- Tragic News of a Rising. * The sdventure in strange lands of Lord Headle bas entered upon his seventh year, would provide for more than one fascinst- volume. He is by descent s Wynn with the parent house in the sixteenth century, seb ifs i § sf i [ 3 p f t i i print. I$ | the interference of Government offi- | op § Swix, one of the branch who | ostrich tique, or 8 more or less modern imita tion. Better still, many villages pos sess a real, live lord or iady of the manor Lords of the manor have been ruth. lessly shorn by the march of our so cia! system, but some of their former glory #till remains. Little more than a dozen miles from Charing Cross one rural ruler holds his court leet to this very dag-a gathering of his tenants, at which rents are paid and business of the estate discussed. The history of the manor is to a great extent that of England. Cen- turies ago, it was divided up among the victorious generals of con Sing armies. They themselves sub-divi it among their soldiers. Under this systems the serfs followed petty lords, guaranteeing military service for the use of the land ; the lords were respon sible to the earls and the earls to the King. The petty chiefs were the lords of the manor. | In the days of William the Con- queror there were no fewer than 1.438 manors in England, and, as Byron puts it in "Don Juan" "Eight and for- ty manors were their reward for fol lowing Billy's banners." No fresh manors were crested after the year 1289, however, except in rare in- stances, such as when the nation pre- sented a victorious general with an estate. This happened in the case of the Duke of W ugton. and to this day a condition of the Manor of Strathfieldsaye is that its owner e King a flag once a year. Curious and often whimsical were the terms under which the majority of lords of the manor held their rights. For example, one manorial monarch undertook that whenever the K should cross a certain bri he woul meet him there with two white capous, and address him thus: "Behold, m lord, these two white capons, whic you shall have another time. but not ee. 5 ' diff | roy Another lord was bound to appear before (the King every Christmas Day, and ir\jhis presence to dance a jig and puff out his cheeks. Yet another had to present His Majesty annually with a lance, from which a fox's tail depended. Indeed, weapons were very popular as tokens of the Sove- reign's rights, and swords, spurs and warlike accoutrements were frequent. ly chosen. Byrn ivi The tenants of the majority of man. ors &re copyholders; that is to say, they hold the land for life from the Jord of the manor. When they die, or transfer the land, a herio' must be paid. This is in the nature of a fine, usually consisting of the best "'quick-beast"" -- horse or cow -- but sometimes communted to a sum of money. # ) Considerably * under a = hundred years ago copyholders of Jand posseas- od no vote. The lord of the manor, princely in his petty powers, ruled all within his leet. leet kept the stocks in repair, and provided the illory and tumbrell--the latter a cking stool, by means of which misdemeanants , were immersed; wo- men in clean' water; bfewers and bakers in the fiithiest liquid that could be found. 4 The Manor of Pewsey, in Wiltshire, was conveyanced by means of 8 horn that had to be blown at the accés- sion of a new lord, and every year the City of London pays certain horse- shoes and nails as rent for a piece of land in the parish of Bt. Clement Dane. * > Nowadays, lords of the manor are a dying class. It requires two copy- holders at least to form a manor, and many modern "serfs"' have their land m freehold by buying out the overlord. gw wp A bs Ostrich Chases wr Fo, While sightseeing outside Lady- smith, during his tour in South Al- rica, Sir Joseph Walton, M.P. for Barnsley, Eng., had an exciting ad- venture. He noticed that he was be- ing pursued by s cock oatrich. This, it appears, was the same bird which had previously knockcd down two offi oers, who. were compelled to lie down on their faces while the bird stoed or jompad on them. "Koowing that my only chance of escape," says Sir Joseph, "was to lie down flat on wy face, or get on an elevation, I made quickly for the laa. ger (thrown up during the siege), and the wall. I went round the walls of the laager, hoping to shako him off, but be followed si>wdily yard by yard, awaiting his opportunity. "At last I signalled to my carriage, snd when it was between me and the ich I les off the lasger and bolted into the carriage. 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