_PAGE SIX THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG THURSDAY, ANGUST 15, 1080. = He BRL oH WHIG [in ---- A property valued ats AN j15800: and for which $50 a month i rent was asked, had an assessed | Ag | MUSINGS OF THE KHAN time, but oh, no! you wouldn't tet me be. Yas, you did, too, Harriet. It was you put me in the hole, an' then . Publisneu Lally and semi- Weekly by THE BRITIS WHIG PUBLISHING . CO, LIMITED tt resident G tor and ~Diretoy . TELEP siness Office . itorial Rooms ... JOb Otic .iv.ovuvyes SUBSCRIPTION RATES ®) at Selle Weekly Edition) 1.00 1.50 year, mail, cash an gas year, if not ald in advance, { Be yenr, to Uniied States .......51.50 Bix and three months pro rata. OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVES ¥. Calder, 22 St. John St. Montreal ¥. M. Thompson, 402 Lumsden Bldg. > Toronto. Letters to the Editur are published only over the actual name of the writer. Atwncned is one of the best job Printing Offices in Canada. "The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticated by the B ARC _|._ Audit Bureau of Circulations. There's many a slip between the coal mines and the cellar. Ireland's nearest .approach to stable government ig constable, You can't judge a man by what or where he came from. Learn why he came. Much of our distres§ is due to lax methods. And the rest of it to tax methods. Bolshevism is neither a hope nor & faith, but rather a memory and an appetite. i -------- Russia may lust and slay if she will, but she only postpones the fiddler"s bill. Bryan says he is a Democrat still. The significant thing is that he is a still Democrat. » When the headline speaks of a speeding car nobody suspects that At refers to a freight car. As we understand the complaint , of the radicals, the capitalist is guilty of being a success. Use hair tonic externally to stop falling hair. Your son will be falling heir. The radical really doesn't care who governs the country if he can do the greater part of its stalking. -------- De la Huerta's threat to make Mexico dry "has quieted the jingo talk of annexation in the United ~ States, Radicals hold) varying' opinions, but they all agree the world can be made better by frisking the rich man. - v ------ Lenine is doubtless determined that the Allies shall recognize the Soviet or be unable to recognize Po- 'land § mt - -. A physician says a pound/Gt steak | Bes as much kick as a 'drink of lquor. Perhaps he means a mule steak. 'As long as machine guns are manufactured it will be just as well 0 make boundary limes in Europe portable. : : ---------- A bore is one who gives you very _ little opportunity to brag about your successes or whine about your troubles. = e fact that the Japanese 'lang- contains no cuss. words leads aaturally to the belief that Japan has uo mosquitoes. ~ Anyone who 1s waiting for coal to _¢ome down should remember how the Board of Commerce lowered the of sugar, When women get into the game pe patriot will win immortality by ting that he has but ome wife . give to his country, ol ------ x When the coal miner has worked three consecutive hours he leans sites for manufacturing econ- 'In 'the morth-east end. The are necessary.' The industries mittee is being seconded by the neil to the fullest extent possible B landing new industries. was very clearly demonstrated _recent Division Court session 'assessment was due It taken intepnally, | value of $2,450. should be assessed at eighty per cent, of its value, The federal government, in the years it has been union in character, has developed along safe and sane lines; it has had men of ideas and progress and quite unafraid to go ahead. The programme for the future is replete with promise and calls for stalwart support. Its re- construction purposes call ' for energy and skill, PRISONERS UNREFORMED, The two young prisoners who made their escape from the provin- clal penitentiary at Portsmouth wen{ forth unreformed. If their morals had been improved they would not have escaped from custody but would have proved themselves worthy of the trust reposedwin them. Instead of doing that, they took advantage of the trust, and the result will be felt probably by other prisoners here- after, for it is not likely that the prison heads will care, for a time least, making "trusties" of in- mates. No doubt a mistake was {hae in the case of the two migsing j young men. Burglary brought the | pair to penitentiary and the period of their incarceration does not ap- pear to have done them good, for in escaping they resorted to every device of the burglar and ° thief. Fortunately they got away without the use of firearms or other weapons, but in order to get clear away they is very apparent that prison life at Portsmouth--as well as in other do- minion penal institutions--is not conducive to reform. A different system of treatment might have 1m- proved the . morals of these two young fellows and their flight might not have occurred. Their escape only adds to the demand for a change in the federal system of deal- ing with men who have violated cer- tain laws of the land. --e HAIRBRUSHAND APRON-STRINGS Several generations have speculat- ed on the spiritual efficacy of the old-fashioned wooden-backed hair- brush physically applied as a correc- tive in the case of young women in- clined to be wayward. Now comes a judge with the sug- gestion that mothers' apron-strings thould be used to tether young peo- ple in the straight and narrow path. This judge observes that he is re- quired to pass judgment on an in- creasing number of young people in the last of the 'teens. He attributes this condition of affairs to the frivo- lity of modern mothers and theflack of proper moral training of the young men and women who are now arriving at the age of courtship and marriage. "The youth of my day," he says, "were taught morality at the moth- ers' apron-strings." "The youth of my day" has al- ways been a favorite topic for the elderly. In those days the youth of the previous generation was held up as a shining example. The grandchil- dren of Adam undoubtedly told their grandchildren of the virtues of un- fortunate Abel. And so it has gone, Hairbrushes and apegn-strings are in the discard, for the time being at least: That children generally are the worse for their new freedom is not yet demonstrated. If mothers and fa- thers of the coming generation de- cide that their parents have been too lax, then we Juay be sure that the hairbrush and the apron-strings will return. So it has gone, and so it will continue to go. An excess in el- ther direction brings its own core rection, . ---------- : BEAUTY THAT IS SKIN DEEP. Usually property | will have to do further stealing. It" The Villain Still Pursues Her. A generation ago on the inaec- |cessible farms near the stump-in- fested side lines a farmer's boy weed- ing corn would occasionally lean up- dh his hoe and figure out what he would be when growed up. The law wag never popular with the boys, be- cause they never saw one - during their impassionable years. are fewer farmers' gons in the legal profession than in any other. Al- most all the preachers come from the farms, for the reason intimated above. The well clad, well 'fed preacher was always before the lad. Two Irishmen sat down on the job for a few minutes one hot day. "Dennis," says one, "what would you be now, supposin' youse had your choice?" | "Fer a good, aisy job," said Dennis, "I'd like be a bishop," | I don't believe that medicine was lever really popular with the bare- |footed boy with the hoe. If one of {them studied medicine the 'career | was chosen for him by his parents. |I fancy the average boy would rather | keep store than be a doctor, Driving a candy wagon for 'a nation outfit was better than either. * But what did the girls think about, the lonely girls away in the back pastures? I honestly believe that girls think of something else besides getting married. You have no con- ception of the number of girls who are thinking up a career. A few years ago school-teaching opened up new prospects, and the girl who could stick it out till she got a third-class certificate was saved from being a hired girl, a factory worker, a grub slinger in a hotel, or from starving feet, for, with a few exceptions, they took possession of every school in the land. The he school teacher withered away before the blast. And served him right! He was only in the profession to get enough money to {start him in something else. There {may have been one here and there [who mean it for a life calling, but |the majority 'of them used the job |as a stepping stone to what they call- ied higher things. Here's where a {lot of the doctors came from and | many of the preachers. They loathed {their work, they despiscd the three old mossbacks who made up the trusted board, they hadga contempt for the rich farmer who gave them a room and eats. In short, they weren't there to stay Many more of them would have studied medicine or ology, only they fell in love with t¥e old man's daughter and that queered their college career. They dropped out of the teaching profes- sion to make hen-coops and stretch fence, or work a farm with a blanket mortgage on it. At his funeral it wag known for the first time to many that once on a time, when he was a dashing Lothario, he had teached school: They blamed it all on their wives. "Say, Harriet, that's enough of that! That'll do now! You've sed too much, more"n flesh"n' blood'll b'ar. You know I wanted you to wait tell I got my doct®'s diplomy be- fore we got married--but oh, no! You wouldn't take no chances. That'll do now, Harriet--I've got the floor. You .know how you ker- ried on. You wep and snorted an' clung about my neck. That'll do now Harriet, that'll' do. You know dang ,| well that what I'm saying is the gos- pel truth. What chance hed I to be a doctor, er a preacher either, with you and a young one on my hands? I come to board at yer dadses, a young, innereent feller with a great future before him. I mighta been an- other Dr. Osler--er I might've been president of the Conference by this There |_ to death genteely as a seamstress. | They let norgrass grow under their | you say I'm too darn lazy to work. When I think that I mighta been preachin' the, Gospel in the Metro- politan church, Trontah, to-day I jest throw down my hoe in despair, and -go to hev a sleep in the barn and soothe my troubled soul. Kin I hev a clean shirt? Uh-huh!--so that's it. "All right, Harriet, all right, old girl--I kin go without a shirt fer that matter." And so the villain still . pursues her. Was there' ever a girl who didn't have a jinx? No matter which way she turns, the villain still pur- sues her. It seems fated that the school- ma'am shall. die unmated. She doesn't even have a beau. There is always a trustee on the board who scares her to death. When she comes--a stranger--+to the section to teach, some old hen loads her up with the names of the young men {whom ghe must avoid and on no con- dition be seen with, and they are In- variably the only young fellows in the neighborhood worth while--and the villain still pursues her. If the schoolma'am would be let slone when she comes into a sec- tion, and if she would take folks as she finds them and not be dominated by a jinx tommittee, she might have a chanco to make a man out of some handsome scapegrace with one hun- dred acres of land. | But she pulls out at the end of |her term, a year older, a year home- |ller--a year eabbeder--and the vil- lain-still pursues her! » THE KHAN. The Wigwam, Rushdale Farm, Rockton, Ont. PUBLIC OPINION Why Cost Price is High. (Seattle Argus) A Philadel hell. Perhaps phia preacher says that all profiteers go to that accounts for the high price of |.coal. An Impossibility. (Detroit Free Press) The government is again forecast- ing a big sugar crop but you can't can peaches with a government fore- cast. No Place for the Wets. (Woodstock Sentinel-Review) Almost everyone looks forward to a mansion in the skies, but that would not appeal to the wets. These A Good Suggestion. (Toronto Mail and Empire) The suggestion is tardy, but it might have been a good idea to limit Olympic contestants « to those who were not paying their first visit to Belgium. 'When the Battle Was Over. (Brooklyn Bagle) We abandoned the Allies as soon as the fruits of viatory were begin- ning to ripen or to decay, as the case might prove to be. This was the sort of a tribute we paid to the dead we left behind, and it was as much of a case of desertion "after the fact" as it would have been be- fore it had Pershing withdrawn his forces in the face of the enemy. It sharpens into a needle-pointed barb and statement that but for/the des- ertioh things might be entirely dif- ferent, and the humiliation averment that we have no right to talk. For further particulars apply to the sen- ators who played a political game with table stakes, the table being the world and the stakes the destines of mankind ' Rippling Rhymes along and prods It is a poor week that does not | bring some strange tale from Paris. | The latest is of & woman who, near- | ing fifty, has recovered the beauty she had when twenty-five by a sim- ple operation. Small incisions were made behind the ears and on the scalp, it is said, and the skin drawn a8 a carpet might be stretched. Only two or three small sutures are lef: to tell the tale, and their tale is hidden under a wealth of har, There are spots on the sun, how- ever, and blemishes on this record. The woman so suddenly given back her youthful countenance must ne- ver sniile again less through laught- er she spoil that finely stretched teg- ument. She cap be happy only as long as she remains as animated as a mummy swathed in gorgeous gar- ments that give,off the odors of sec- ret spices. : Is the price worth paying? Lite has many compensations at fifty that are unknown at twenty-five. Would' it not be better for this Parisienne, anxious postulant of beauty though she is, to take the good with the less good? There is wot much use in liv. ing if all hope of laughter is lost. Of all women, it is agreed the least attractive are those who go farther- est to force the ways of youth on bo- 'dies that make a mockery of thefr efforts. A woman who seeks to look and to act her age--assuming that she has taken life with the rich ana clean delight in its struggles that it deserves--is always the one whom a world, rejoicing in her dignity, likes to honor. False feathers do not make either find birds or fair ladies--ex- cept at the circus. THE LOAFERS. I ply my lyre the whole day long, and have since -long ago, and ship out bales of deathless song at fifty cents a throw. . And if 1 faltered in my zeal, the sheriff would appear, and promptly place his large red seal on all my wordly 'gear. hot, its cooling system clogged, to some calm park or kindred spot I oftentimes have jogged; and there the loafers always sit on benches, day by day; they do not - toil, they do not knit, they never strive for pay. the same old musty groups by aay barred out from all the city's coopa, their. home is in the park. They seem to think there's nothing wrong, they burble and they laugh, until some peeler comes them with his staff, How doth the seedy little shirk<still find existence nice, when men And when my harp gets smoking 1 see wand after dark: who buckle down and work can barely raise the price? How doth the boozy =~, earth, when we must ttle bum contrive to stay on oil and make things hum, to gain our board and berth? - It is a mystery, I wot, that ReGus sui avil, much; and when my beat the Dutch. : GROPING IN Time was when the space was a "blind groping in air cooled harp. gets hot, I muse, to fund, ici rr --WALT MASON. THE DARK tisers had no means of checking s publisher's statement of circulation and often these figures were unreliable. In six years the Audit\Buresn of Circulations matic analysis of distribution and methods, this or ganization is able to supply Just the data an » adver tiser needs. The darkness is dispelled and the . bright light of verified facts takes its place. 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