Daily British Whig (1850), 7 Aug 1920, p. 4

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_ NIBBLES FROM TWEEDALE . From "The Beautiful Mrs. Da venant," by Vioiet Tweedale. Phere are lots of men who will +. Simply do anything for.a woman, . Smeept marry her, Ong is arg to think bachefbrs would make the best husbands, just one often thinks what good bache- married men would make. *"I couldn't bear-to be hen-peck- od," he said. 'Don't you think. it entirely depends upon the hen?" suggested Hilda. Baldie Hall opened huge black] eyes upon her companion. She had born good-looking, but she had achieved good looks. The ideal husband dwells only in the imagination of the woman who mever had one. ; 5 The interesting point a euline women is that it {s impQssible to imagine they ever were y Effeminate men never seem to #1 think there's much less falling fn love now than there was in my young days. Men have grown so selfish," said Mrs. Carlton: Mrs. Davenant shook her head. "Il. simply adore men," she said. . In order to seize ge opportunity of a lifetime, it must bq seized dur- ing the lifetime of the"opportunity. *I dare say I'm silly," said Mrs. Davenant, "but I'd rather be a fool- | ish widow than a wise virgin, any day. I'd like the evening post to bring me a letter beginning, 'Dear- est woman in the world,' " "I never cared much for big wo- men," he sald; "they look too much as if they could take care of them- selves." "Honesty's a wretched virtue. . One never calls a woman honest who has any manners. We reserve the epithet for those of*whom we have nothing good bo say," We all know that a woman can change her character with her hat-- after all, what are most heads?-- merely hat-pegs. What's so clever about Saidie is she quite understands that to look pretty very nearly means that I am pretty. ---- wonder why Mrs. Davenant neéyer re-married?" . "Once bitfen, twice shy," observed Jim, foolishly. . "That proverb never applied to any living saul ten years old," re- torted Saidie, with conviction. "When f§ woman's made a bad shot she always wants to recover her losses." The exact difference between the saint and the #iner is one of temp- erament degree, Temperament used to be the strict preserve of genius, now anyone may have it and belon to quite a decent club. : No one ought to be christened till they-re twenty-one. Names rarely fit their owners. Women called Fay and Daphne have faces like the Marble Arch, and always address you as if you were a public meeting. | I've knowii of Marmadukés and | Jaspars who have faces like gar- goyles, who roar like bulls of Bas- han under Reformer's Tree, and dwell in suburban nests called Zepp | Villa and Gotha Cottage. A -- I've often heard that the most wonderful letters are written in | lunatic asylums - | That's because the really sane | people only are shut up.. We | who are at large are all mad on some things, and most of us on most { things. | -- Mrs. Davenant gives me the im- | pression' of being self-made, and she's {taken a lot of trouble over her work. | The really hopeless people are those {who have been made by someone else. | She was a widow of importance in her world, owning the unique reputa- [tion for never having compromised | herself. The truth was, that being | very plain no one would believe any- . | thing against her. | i oliove. . | is the only subject that {has ever been known tor hold the sustained interest of the British race. | People marvelled at the welcome |glven to Hawker. They didn't sed through the Daily Mail's consummate | understanding of human nature -in | giving us daily pictur. s of Mrs. Haw- ker and the baby waiting at home, {that really roused that ovation. The | public didn't care tuppence about the | Atlantic. All they cared for was to | see love reunited. Famous Table Talk. "0! to have been with Selden over his glass of wine, making every accident an outlet and a vehicle of w m," exclaimed Coleridge on reading Selden's "Table Talk," John en was born in:1584, and on leav- : Oxford adopted the legal profes- 0 He wrote several law works suffered imprisofiment through , Opposing the will of James I. in re- &ard to the freedom of the House of Commons. As an orator he made his mark in Parliament, and throughout -.. Ais life he efeavored to effect & re conciliation between King and Parlia- ment. His life wag strenuous, and when he died in 1654 his literary and litical abilities were widely ac- nowledged. His "Table Talk" con- tains the essence of his philosophy of life. Here are a few of his maxims: "Tis good to have translations, be- Cause they serve as a comment, so far @g the judgment of the man goes. . » . In answering a book, 'tis best to be short; otherwise he that I write against will suspect I intend to weary "him, not to satisty him. Besides, in being long I shall give ny adversary a huge advantage; somewhere or oth- ef he will' pick a hole. "Tig the trial of'a man to see if he will change his side; and if he be so weak as to change once, he will change again. : eo ws He that hath a scrupulous consci- onde is like a horse that is not well 'd, he starts at every bird that out of the hedge. ® . * "Tis much of the doctrine of the times, that men should not please a ob i British Aero {' @lants of the Air and Tiny +. Other in % Practically A themselves, but deny themselves every thing they take delight in; not look upon beauty, wear no good clothes, eat no good meat, etc., which sems the greatest accusation that can be upon the Maker of all good things. If they be not to be used, why did God maka them. hd No man is wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man, * - * * - Of 'all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'tis most meddled 'with by other people. . * *» Money makes a man laugh. - - = Opinion and affection extremely differ. I may affect a woman best, but it does not follow I must think her the handsomest woman in the world. 1 love apples best of any fruit, but it does not Zollow I must think apples to be the best fruit. Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reason why all the world should think as I think. Affec- tion is a thing wherein I look after the pleasing of myself. » - * * Thought we had peace, yet 'twill be a great while eer things be set- tled, - Though th wind lie, yet after a storm the sea will work. a great while, * - . Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I a min great trouble for till I have it. The Second: By C. N. and A. M. Williamson. Published by 8. B. Gurdy, Toronto. 367 pages. ular Interest--The I of British Design } '(Published by Special Arrange ment with the Asroplane ) Bureau.) An excellent book; good both in nn. Exhibition at Olympia Brought Forth Many Novelties Aeroplanes Vied With Each Exhibits Were and Manufacture, -- News ondon, Aug. 7.--The sixth Inter- 0 Aero Exhibition at Olympia, has just closed after a fort- of successful sessions, fly remarkable for the manner in ch it established the supremacy of aircraft manufacture, . : @ Marquis of Londonderry, in B opening address, said the dévelop- and progress which had taken in every branch of aviation 1914 was stupendous. In this civil flying had really been a Mttle over a year, Dis- 8 international - progress, he Bid. he referred to the progress of . égmmercial aviation in, Germany, and jd that wag no doubt that the Ger- ins were fully alive to the national 1 ce of aviation. Nothing was gained, however, by unneces- alarmist statements of he case. A Review of he Exhibits. 2 he sat pers, ma- the whale s! ted one tering, vis: t Bristol triplane, the only machine at the show , more than two engines, and has id its ability to fly with one or tyo of the engines cut out. This 8, known as the "Pullman," has f 81 feet, 8 inches, carries has a weight 17000 pounds. Comtort: Be a , _-- able accommodation is provid fourteen passengers. The od cockpit with its row of levers like a railway signal-box, shares interest with the interior of the fuselage. The Handley Page and Vickers big buses have 'also interiors that are lavishly and completely fitted up, no detail being neglected that could add to the comfort. Seems remarkable that a great i chine like the Bristol can' be Fan through the air at 125 miles per hour (a recent test is said to have shown a speed of 134 miles per hour) Speeds that one associates with the scout type. At the other extreme. in size w: the B. A. T. Crow, a tiny monoplane in which the pllot sits underneath the plane, the motor-cycle of the air. This somewhat quaint-looking ma- chine has shown remarkable flying qualities, when piloted by Major Draper, and is by no means only the toy that it might appear to be. at first' sight. The "Bantam" on the same stand was a example of the fighting machine. Fitted with the a2 . Wasp IL, it has recently chieved some remarkable the air ministry. Tests for From the instructional point of view the greatest novelty was shown » AILY BRITIS | runs no risk of upsetting the balance r of the machine. Jt is essentially a fighting machine, and has two Vick- ers gns operating with the Constan- tinesco gear in front and a Lewis | gun on a Scarff mounting behind. | There is no fin, the deep fuselage i | taking its place, which gives a splen- design and .execution, with a well- concealed plot, which holds the read- e's interest till the last pie. A story full of surprises and thrilling situations, with a wholesome human interest throughout. It is exceeding: ly well writterr; the style is-He@ and there is evidence of careful writing on every page, A STRAIGHT DEAL OR THE ANC- IENT GRUDGE. By "Owen Wister. Published By The MacMillan. Price, $2.25. It may be that certain ' readers with a mental or moral twist will see in this refreshing' book only a timely appeal for the Candidature of Leonard Wood, for president of the United States; it may be that others of equally unbalanced judgment, af- flicted with an Anti-English complex, will find in it occasion for a new dia- tribe against Great Britain. But we think the impartial reader will see in thie book a clear, frank, fair state- ment of similarities and differences between, the two great branches of the English speaking world. It is luminous, dispassionate eminently fairnand enormously enlightening to both members of the family. The writer shows unusual grasp of the destiny--determining epochs of the two nations, and appeals with irres- the great agreements instead of magnifying the petty differences which exist between Great Britaih and 'the United States. It is of more than passing interest to note that much of the hatred of England is due to an apparently intentional dis- tortion of the plain facts of history as set forth in the text books of the schools of the United States. The closing sentence of the book sums up its general attitude: "And beneath (England's) wis dom at the bottom of all is her sense of our kinship through liberty de- fined and assured by law, If we (the United States) were so far-seeing as she is, we also should know that her good will is equally important to us; not alone for material reasons, or for the sake of our safety, but also for those few, deep, ultimate ideals, of law, liberty, life, manhood and wo- manhood, which we share with her, which we got from her, because she is our nearest relation inthis many peopled world." The book {is written in a clear style of excellent literary flavor, by one who knows the facts and believes what he writes. It is a distinct con- tribution to international good will. WINE OF THE WINDS. Published by 8. 336 Pages. By Keene Abbott. B. Gundy, Toronto. Price $1.45 Net. This book i% a fine piece of. good LEpglish literature. The plot, while not obtrusive, has sufficient move- went to keep the reader fully alert; the dilimations of character wrought out with great care in the two very opposite feminine natures, around which much of the story re- volves, is really exquisitely done. There is an exciting bit about Indian raids, some wounds, woman's tender- ness in sickness and a couple of con- venient deaths, which, however, do not spoil the story. The affection and heroism of the first love are finally rewarded as a triumph over the despondency of the man whose second chance in some measure re- deems the criminal blunder of his early practise. The book is a first rate novel. The Woman Hater. By Ruby M. ers. Hodder and Stoughton, eaon. 264 pages. Price 7s. 6d. net." * This book is written by a well- known author who has ajfull score of novels to her credit. is the story of a woman with whom one man was in love long ago and, with whom an- other man is in love in the early chapters, The principle around which the plot revolves, is that no matter who she may be and = what tricks she or fortune may pay him, no man wholly breaks with his first love, the fire mever goes out; only favorable opportunity is required to fan it into flame. There are a couple of suicides in the book and the plot, while well-executed, is neither too intricate nor too conceal- ed. ¢ oN rd the Short "Silver Streak," which has no wood or canvas in its construction, The wing spars are of steel, and so are a few minor parts, otherwise du- ralumin is used entirely, though the actual machine at the show had the planes covered with aluminum. The engine, a "Siddeley Puma," is mounts ed on steel tubes held in position by built-up dulalumin bearers; the construction lends itself to the fit- ting of other types of engine if de- sired. On the Short stand there was shown the patent landing st! which the firm uses. This consists of tloats which rise ang fall with the tide. At the Martinsyde stand, great in- terest was taken in the tiny scarlet machine, the Semi-Quaver, on which Mr. Raynham put up the record of 161.434 miles per hour, and which he is flying in the Aerial Derby round London. The Supermarine stand was of special interest as they were the only flying boats exhibited, and the "Channel" type is one of several brought by the Norweglan 1 m The arrangements for "han- dl e anchor and the patent boat- hook features of this very sea- worthy (and air-worthy) - looking craft. The Blackburn machine with its divided axle for carry \rrying a torpedo plane was a centre of interest though the deep fhiselage gives it an inele- gant appearance. The Fairey also has a very deep fuselage. This ma- chine is for the Air Service, and de- tails of dimensions and performance are not available for publication. It is a striking machine with ad- mirable features, Including he Fain has been ent ey Jutiabla camber, w! grea proved by an arrangem which looks the tail-adjustment with the variable camber adjustment, so that the angle of both is increased or decreased together, and. the . pilot istible force for a new emphasis ox] {did field of fire. The constructional principle of the machine is also of interest, and will be described in re- viewing the machine. The Napier en- gine with which the machine is fit ted has an electrical starter, and the huge propeller, which runs at half the engine speed, revolves when it is switched on. There was quite a varied selection of engines to be seen at the show. There were actually 'no less than fif- teen distinct types of engine shown on the aeroplanes, quite apart from several others that were shown by the engine firms themselves. They ier "Lion," which is becoming in- creasingly appreciated as a high- power. unit, down to the A.B.C. "Gnat." . The Aircraft Disposal Company had the annexe of the building and there could be seen the various types of machine that were in use during the war, all of which the company has now for disposal. Apart from its appealing to prospective purchas- ers, this section had a great interest for its showing the type of machines that brought victory to us in the war. The accessories shown contained many features of interest, among them being the Palmer Tyres, which had some huge tyres to show, the S. Smith & Sons' instruments, the wireless telegraphy and telephony shown by Marconi's, and the _ "One Lever' Automatic Telephone, which always had a lot of inferested specta- tors. SUMMER COMPLAINTS KILL LITTLE ONES At the first sign of illness during the hot weather give the little ones Baby's Own Tablets or in a few hours he may be beyond aid. These 'Tablets will prevent summer com- plaints if given ottasionally to the well child and will promptly relieve these troubles if they come on sud- denly. Baby's Own Tablets should always be kept in every home where there are young children. no other medicine as good and the mother has the guarantee of a gov- lutely safe. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicin® Co., Brockville, Ont. alten. KANGAROOS FOR OSTRICHES Vancouver Tralles Australian Jump- ers to Augment the Zoo. Vancouver, B.C., Aug. 7--Another little advertised, but highly success- ful Vancouver industry, is located in Stanley park in the shape of the kan- garoo colony there. So successful have the parks authories ,been in raising these animals that they are now being used for an exchange me- dium to augment the park zoo. Some time ago two kangaroos were sent to Spokane, and that city reciprocated 'by sending a female ostrich, which is now sitting on _ten eggs. Word has been received that Mrs. son, sent to Toronto from here, ar- rived safely at the Riverside Zoo. It is understood that Toronto intends to return the compliment by sending two Yate pelicans for the Stanley park collection. @ Forest Farmers Haying. Forest, Aug. 5.--The farmers are nearly through haying, and they re- port a light crop. The shareholders of the cream butter and cheese as- sociation, held their annual business meeting on the 28th. They paid off a dividend of ten per cent. Thomas Fitzgerald and son, shipped a car- .| load of fat cattle, to~ Montreal last week. They shipped them from Mur- vale station. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. El- lerbeck spent a day recently, at Har- rowsmith, with Mrs. Ellerbeck's mo- ther. The Misses Fitzgerald spent an evening at Wm. Vancoughant's. Mr. and Mrs. B. Harrigan are at M. Com- mings. The Ladies' Aid, held a gar- den party at the home of Mrs. Geo, Irwin, Thursday evening. The man who spends more than he earns is bound to.gob somebody. * Sometimes the chronic joker makes his hearers serious. If you tell all you think you know you will do some talking. It's a fool sort of fashion that one has to allow into debt. MOTHER! "California Syrup of Figs" Child's Best Laxative "Accept "California" only--look for the on the th your The book that contain the story of to-day's absorbing Motion Picture CALL FOR YOUR COPY. Ask for lists of recent motion plc- tures based on standard or current H WHIG rapidly | varied in horse power from the Nap-| There is |. ernment analyst that they are abso- | and Mrs. Kangaroo and their small |- ~-- m-- & Soven Sentence Sermon. 1 Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly is more like a | god than a man.--Burton. . . - | The central concern of every hu- | man being is to know God, and knowing Him, to do His will and live ! 3 in His plan.--D. 8. Cairns. "= * - Father perfect my trust; Let my spirit feel in death That her feet are firmly set On the rock of living faith! Ca oFhoebe Cary. - The grandest march of victory is the march of bruised reeds repaired, | and the sweetest lightMin the world | at this moment is the light of re- stored lamps. --H. Elvet Lewis. : / 3 / "Seeing ye have puritied your souls in your obedience to the triith unto | unfeigned love of the brethren, love | One another from the heart fervent- ly.~--I. Pet. 1:22, PS * * . . There is no speech nor language to express The secret message of make Perpetual music heart. --Henry Van Dyke. . . . God, that in the hearing Theoretically we know that He! doeth "all things well," and that "all things work "sqgether for good to them that love God"; but it is a tri- umph of faith which brings great glory to God when, in the time of nature's sorrow, the whole soul of the believer rejoicingly accepts the Lord's dealings.--~J. Hudson Taylor. > The over officious boss never gains the respect and esteem of his work- men. Scripture measure is that kind that neither robs the seller or buyer. A questionable crop is usually har- vested from the seeds of prejudice. GRAND TRUN J J HARVEST HELP EXCURSIONS to RAILWAY SYSTEM s ~~ 1,000 Miles of Scenic Splendor [HERE'S a boat trip that will hold you md for the entire length of its 1,000 miles. 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