6 , THE BRITISH WHIG | 88TH YEAR. e would pay to follow the « oro OLD NOVELISTS THE After »f the books that ! during the past vear must indeed t ire DAGK- LO. Lue. Writings ok ens, George Eliot, ( Hawthorne and the ik» indeed 9 BEST. Jdooking over reader ek Reade is a plea rks of bookshop! J LEER EY »im aw H [ Poe) A Bas TT aw aN Bu N | stire behold the w Edin these masters still in { but it would be better if for them were greater. Those ers and others of their da tion life thro nd genera interpreted enunciated and tneir characters the great Published Daily and Semi-Weekly by . THE BRITISH WHiG PUBLISHING | presented a CO., LIMITED truths underlying all things. And thes faithful picture life of How their day. President |. is (o read over again and .. Editor and " . aging-Director | Pickwick Papers" of Di = | Cloistér and the Ffi€arth" of Adam Bede" iant historical novels of Scott Ing written today seems to be class and the more"s the pity are a few novelists of this J. G. Ellotg ,....... Leman A. Guilg . " Reade TELEIFHON ieade, Business Office ........ Editorial Rooms Job Office . bril Nothe of Eliot, and~the SUBSCRIPTION RAT (Daily Edition) year, delivered in city ...- year, if paid in advance year, by mail to rural office vs . . year, to United States )..3.00| Who have given us del (Semi-Weekly Edition) 7 Lut half a dozen hooks year, by mail, cash $1.00 ; . year, if not paid in advance $1.50 In the past quarter of au centuf a 2 State 50 x 1} year, to United States . 3150) pe for sale on the booksell: VES | ves t OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATI F. Calder, 22 St. John St, Montreal ¥. W. Thompson 190 King St. E Toronto, There zengration $6.00 $5.00 s $2.50 ne ne One One ightful' tales, written will not One One One hirty years hence s to the itor are pu Latters of ver the actual name bilshed | MODERN POPULAR LITERATURE. 0 e People of the mature 5 present day people, who have sean othe: tions, cannot be blamed if and ask that themseives, "What is the {ing to?" Attached is one of the best Job genera printing offices in Canada 'they top S question of The circulation of THE BRITISH WHIG is authenticaied by the : ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations. . famous world com- A glance at the popular nov- ¢ls of the times, and a visit to a mo- tion picture theatre or 'a popular mu- > the BA A rine emma | DTESSION Of this phrase ' The reason the girls don't like al At least half of the books of fic- bad egg Is 'because he | tion being turned out at the present fresh time have their whole policy based on sical show, at once warrants tries to get ur . all that is immoral and low and dan- | Pun: Alay on words. Now gener- | 88¥Qus. The authors, and sometimes even| the critiés, prate of getting at the ™ruth",. of finding the course of life and many other weak excuses are handed out to those of ally regarded as an abbreviation of the word "punk." Gossip: The art of repeating what | you don't believe, and adding 'details | the readers who have enough cour- | age left to protest. It is becoming the - thing the dear, winsome What the people of the world need | young heroine of the popular novel is a common language--some simple, | to be divorced to make it convincing | usual for ntheir |, ex- | true' | | dividuals | PUBLIC OPINION | ot of Trouble N¢ idon, Conn, Day When we can no longer things on liquor or war's reaction, may 'egin to suspect that human t itself is a little faulty I'he Re Diame Learned Nothing. Guelph Herald) The -Domjpion Opposition fight down the estimates ia' department indicate of this community its tactics n taught og the that a has not twith- the section greatly standing the war changed lessons Good Die Young. Life any rubbish if you New York I don't want sentimentality the widow of an epitaph she desired for her late no.fine please," said husband. "Let it be short and simple | 'William John- the, good die something like this t ged 75 years; #ay Happen Anywhere. (New York Sun). The kind of struggle now going on in England may happen in any coun- try where afew, relatively speaking have retained in the railroading or mining or other trades an advantage | the subsidence of leaves them in wages to which inflation elsewhere longer entitled This Is Canada Vietoria Times) 1 | eems extraordinary that ple from other lands do not recog- nize that this" is Canada. No objec- tion is, taken to the cut of a man's coat or of the manner" in which he conducts hig religious worship. the people of this country have a rooted objection to those new arri- vals who' plant their feet in this or any province and -commence to re- | | make the laws or break those already | | { in existence. Russia is Russia, and Ireland is Ireland. For our part, this | is British Columbia The American Influx. (Ottawa Journal) The exodus from Canada, which the late Sir Richard Cartwright was | 80 much given to bemoaning in the days when he was an advocate of commercial union, has been very defi- nitely reversed. Last year 23,300 in- came in from the United States bringing with them $3,335,138 in stock and effects and $10,487.085 who was asked what kind | no | But | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. Pd Fa.DAY, "AVN L0, 1021. up his] t your hat | y's Place and | salesman, who, after t | orders, said: "Well, Jir and 0 to Roon "Wurra, Wurra!" s al take' the joy ways 'Sta A Real Spore. were tr r New O at t: » beat | leans | race | conductor | 6 sports who way back being cleaned Were ditched b the a littl ne-horse t at night The sports were | tired and hungry and decided to make | a' bold front and get'a meal and a| bed. There was only h in the | hard- | stered | ip 8 IW about 'clock tel own a tle plata a faced woman The and had supper A sat around aw of the re who ran the place and said Lady, there ain't a a set of dice around the there? I'd like to get up game' . , | No. sir," replied the 1 frigid- There are no dice on the prem- | | 1ses | How a of | asked the sport yf little stud." "We have no snapped the woman Well insisted i make yout own pumpRir ples don't | you? i | "we "Ar you by sports they y. one woman and sports went up to such thing as Joint, is a crap | womar 'abou cards?" | sport vou replied have a n't yO he woman few wash tubs | asked the | peo- | s e Are replied' the woman "Then let's have three wash tubg ang | i & pumpkin, and I'll start a shell ga said the sport several t the wash house, me," | Our Daily Special, There's "An Awful®* Diffe tween Being Broad-Minded an | Fat-Headeaq I | THE KILLER. | i The lady, with her little gun, does | murder with a smile, because her | lover, tiresome one, has bored her {auite a while. He doesn't wear. his | whiskers right; he is a careless toff; | and so, some soft and balmy night,' she calmly bumps him off, And | | when they bring her into court, the | Walt Mason THE POET PHILOSOPHER | Sodan | i three or four times understandable language « ------------------ Father Time uses an hour glass time with a looking glass. - In the spring an old widower's fancy lightly turns .to taking anoth®§g chance Perhaps - you noticed didn't become popular that Jazz until hair " po dressers had, covered feminine ears. The man who invented pickled pig's feet was making a desperate ef- fort to make ends meat. With summer styles what they pro- ' mise to be, one who can't go to the "seashore won't 'miss much, isl " The small nations will probably look: bored the next time anybody tries {o tell them about Santa. It seems to be a rule among tlie new. story writers to--use about two ¥rerch phrases to the paragraph. ---- That 'run-down feeling 'is occas foned by spring; also by trying to Cross in the middle of the block Realism: A school of that cuts out the rotten throws away the rest literature spots and of the apple "The one-man 'dog is the only kind Worth having," says a faneier. In the old days people felt that way about wives, also, . : ------ One reason why our forefathers were abler men was because they had to 'depend on their own abilities .in- stead of a press agent. When you seed meustache of that color, you -don't know whether he has been trying to dye it or kissing something with rougéaon it. A motorist declares that good driver should be able to stop within three feet of a railway crossing. reminds us that the good die young. #When a woman kills a man in this bountry they don't punish her, and when a man kills a man they don't catch him. It's about 50-50. --Mem- phis News Scimitar. a SUNDAY STREET CARS, Peterboro is to inaugurate a Sun- day street car service, beginning May 1st. This service is to be from 9 a.m till 11 p.m, with a ten-cent fare pre- vajling. It fs an experiment that Pet- erboro is trying, and the continua- tion of the Sunday service will de- pend upon the patronage. Kingston was perhaps the first of the smaller ~ cities to have Sunday cars in sum- . mer, and it was found that they did hat pay. When the day was fine and Warm, there was fair patronage, with Lake Ontario Park as the objective. thoughts ef This | {and to have lived with several men | Without so much ds the expression of | If la marriage vow. he were a woman, he would measure | her one If we could follow paragraph past the last chap- ter when she at last finds her "one true love," we would be the delighted | Ss of yet another divorce ad- ded to her list of accomplishments witness If the novel happens to confine it~ | | self to just one of the many adven- | | tures of the, creature who is designat- | (ed a young woman of modern times, | | the favorite plan is to make her a virtuous- young wife who finds her- | set very much neglected by her well- | meaning though careléss husband, raves most foolishly for twelve chap: | ters, hovers on the brink of loving | the marvellous "other man" for| | twelve more and then flies to the | {arms of her repentant husband and is forgiven for her inutterable crime {of making an awful fool of herself | for two dozen chapters As one old | ! lady in this city; with more common | sense than imagination, said: "That | kind of creature ought to get a good | kiek." Then, take motion pictures, | Out of every five feature pictures | about three are devoted to placing | the 'the heroine in the part of some fast | woman and cloaking her over with | the camouflage of The { audience 1S not supposed to see the | { innocence. So bad has it become that | | the most "ticklish" parts of the films | are used as the headliners of attrac- | tion in the advertisements. All the | Ghoice immoral sensations of each | | particular picture are portrayed on | [the bill-boards of the country for | weeks before the picture 'itself ig | shown, in order to give the patrons {of each mwvie house a good opportu | | nity of bringing their children to the | | creening to receive their first les- | isons in vice, | Do. the publishers of the novels | | which are flooding the country, and | | the booksellers who deal in those | novels, strictly' adhere to those prin- | ciples whieh they apparently suppor®/ only on Sunday morning or evening | innocence jor are they commercialized Christ- | | fans? Are their varibus religions on- | [ly good from Saturday night until | | Sunday morning? i | There used to be an Ontario Board | of Censors for motion pictures. Ts | | this board mow active? - If it is, it | | might: be interesting to find out | wheré its members learned their con- | | ception of the difference between the i ) | decent and the indecent. i is BEAUTY FADES i [ saw two maids, Two maidens gay, And they were womirous fair; | One's beauty xr" Her mouth and eyds, ' "The qther's was her hair. These maidens now Are women grown, | And both have husbands true | One woman's mouth but on unfavorable days the patron- | Is just as sweet, Her eyes are just as blue, ditions cannot fail to lure settlement | ioned man who used to get an eighth {the great {It creaks and 'snorts and sure looks | But. darned if I could ever tell Bge the cars received was meagre. | 3 : For ordinary' purposes Kingston Bas jie, others Share; : bo need of Sunday cars, and a ond Has turned from brown to white Proof of that is that they would be lange is to say, run here at a financial loss. It specia) It would have turned, bvents were to be held at. Lake On- But she dyes it every night in cash, This is a movement upon law's ancestral coop, the jurymen, | which Canada-may depend, in prob- | each one a sport, acquit her with a } 5 ably swelling volume; for the attrac-| Whoop. And then she feels that | tion of cheap land and promising con- | 4UtY calls in no uncertain tones, and | in the movie picture halls she ought to draw some bonés. She wants to | teach our boys and girls that vice | their souls will harm, that homely | | virtnes are the Rearls, and sin's al | false alarm. And\while she's guard- ing thus the youth from all that ovil means, and through the films ex- | pounding truth; she'll gather in the heans. But soon her hopes grow | lank and lean; for movie men don't | fall; they say, "The modern movie | queen needs something more than Ball." Methinks it is a hopeful sign | that ier ambition's stung, that she is | not allowed to shine and elevate the | young. The young can find much | better aids to higher life, 1 wist, and | bloody little, claramaids should: fade, i and won't be missed. Then It Happened! | --WALT MASON. ould!" mused the Cheer- | ™ mann 1 could what? demanded C= ¥ . a couple of deaf mutes are | at i neymoon, you can say that v happy, can't the Cheerful Idiot from a country which is steadily ap-| proaching the saturation point. -y BITS OF BY-PLAY {| By LUKE McLUKE Copyright, 1920, by The Cincinnati Enquirer. Aw, Gwan! old Maid longs for wedded bliss, 1lone she has to sit; he must remain a M xs ca it make jut all She finds Deda a.n ful Idiot Sure the Wise 'Why ¢ G t an thelr h hey a nspeakably ou?" repliec y plied The Delaware, Lackawanna an) : Western Railroad's Celebrated ad LAY Scranton Sphinx. - He- had sat there Coal » . wondering at the mystery | Suddenly i nl The Standard Anthracite The only Coal handled by Crawford Sphinx with a| Phone 9. Them Was the Happy Days! What has become of the old.fash-| of beer for 85 cents? Heteha! Said oid Mr. Tott Fi by boil in the pot Beats two on the.-neck | hek betcha A The Sphinx Speaks. 5 | The famous scientist was sitting befare the , for hourk of bygone ages ticed the Sphinx move Was trying to speak went closer The great effort. opened spake these words *1Pih no gnihtyna t« m'l hsog" The scightist eagerly copied' the | words and for hours studied the cryp-| tic phrase At last he managed to} translate it into English by reading it | backward. And this is what he found: | its mouth and ruoy Yrd Foot of Queen St. Special Prices on BIBBY"S Special Prices 'on » BOYS® SUITS am-- MEN'S SHOES MEN'S | The Just Wright, RAINCOATS English Parametta 31:50 Cloth, greys and $6.75.| |fawns, grey and brown Tweeds. Sizes | 34 to 44. Regular $20.00, $22.50 val- ues for .... $15.00 regular Shoe for All sizes. 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Here is what Prof Bertholdt has so say: "The world than to the owes more to the fat thin Obesity one of blessings that Providence bestows upon then, and it is always a is INTRODUCING . Everlastic Slate Surfaced Multi-Shingles 5 Made hy the Barrett Co., who have been making Roofings for over 75 years. Comes in natural shades of Red or Green, and weighs 150 Ihs, per square, BUNT'S HARDWARE st Grouch '1 always thought that blondes were lighter than brunettes." Vegetable and Flower Seeds in bulk or package-- bought only from re- liable Cahadian seed houses. Dr. Chiown's Drug Store 185 Princess St. Phone 348, accompanied by perseverance. cheer. fulness and virtue" Things Te Worry About. tough, Idts of render; And clanking noise doth What makes a locomotive tender --Holyoke. . Is That So! 'I'm very siow, I am afraid, Confessed old Mr. Demmon 'Tve often seen' red lemon But never a red lemon" « Heo, Hum! (Ceidwater (Ohio) Chronicle) Luke, what's become of the - ade, of Rn New Maple Syrup New Maple Sugar The old fashioned kicd with Pure Cadillac Electric Cleaner ~The only machine on the market, with a self-cooling motor. "J. R. C. Dobbs & Co. the true maple flavor. and good. DR.A.W. WINNETT DANTAL SURGEON, ; «orner of Johnsun aud Wellington Streets Phone 308 FOR SALE 1--Frame dwelling; scuth side of Albert street: 5 bed- rooms; furnace; good con- crete cellar; verandah; electricity and gas, $3,400. « Will rent {f not sold before 3 May 1st. 3 J 2--Brick dwelling, Montreal "street; u rooms; first class masonry and woodwork $3,000, 3--Brick dwelling; 12 rooms and double rough-cast with 7 rooms each; Ontario St. Rental $720--87,250. T. J. Lockhart Clarence Street, Kingston Phones. 1083w.. or 17974. Jas. REDDEN & Co. Phone 20 and 990, 41 Clarence Street, Kingstont. Typewriter Headquarters. Phone 819, The signature of William Shakes- peare written on the wail of Hamp- ton Cburt Palace, und dated 1606, Eas been pronounced authentic. \