THE DAILY BRITISH _WHIG THURSDAY, 7 DECEMBER 18, 10238, Pablished De iy = and Semi-Weekly hy BRITIS WHIG FUBLISHING - CO, LIMITED , President Editor and Managing-Director i TELEPHONE Private Exchange, connecting all departments . SUBSCRIFTION RATES: (Dal One Be United States I. (Semi-Weekly Edition) » by mail, cash $1.50 on year, to United States $2.00 Amari meester OUT-OF-TOWN REPRESENTATIVE ES: | ¥. Calder, 22 St. John St, Montreal ¥. W. Thompson 100 King St. W,, Terente. Letters to the Editor are sally over the actual name of writer. ' Afthshed is one of the gs offices in Canada. The circulation of THE BRITISH WHYG 1 ausnaplitate by the ABO Audit Bursau of Circulations published the best Jub THE CAV E "WOMAN. | French gallantry is The latest fair one to be res- insult and abuse by the the earli cave woman fore. | cued from { Frenchman is other than the rata A Re | the cave woman, in the minds of students of that far-off time, | occupied a position of menial servi- tude. now ge to her rescue and, relics and other raise her to a ruling position. Ac- cording to them{ she ladied it over her lord--who was not her master-- with high hand. Man was the slave of her whims, the servant of her will. This would suggest that! hetween then and now woman's po- | sition has changed very little. She has always been the boss. Ever from evidence, DEDICATING A TEMPLE, The ceremonies that last evening marked the dedication of the nes and the banquet teeta ivan ep---------------------- | Masonic temple 43 that followed it will live long in the | {only surprising but discrediting. : mamory of those Masons who were | privileged to attend. It was by far | the largest gathering of the craft | that ever assembled in this fine old | | city. The commodious new lodge- | i room could accommodate scarce hall of those who [sought admittance to witness the dedication services. City members kifdly withdrew to give place to tWe visitors from the sur { rounding countryside and frem dis tant points. Over 800 members of the | order sat down to the dinner in On-| | tanio hall, and here again the ac- commodation was overtaxed, "and Memorial hall had to be called into | use. ' { The while highly credit- 11 be a event able to the Masonic order, wi rumor It is better to bo straight oven fine advertisement for the city. Visit- though the corkscrew has a pull. A man is known by the company £ he koeps, and a woman by the kind she avoids. ---- Samson was blind when he pulled | down the temple to ruin his enemies. Paris papers please copy. Old-fashioned form: '"'May I pre- sume fo introduce myself, sir?" o- dern form: "Gotta match?" As a general thing, the reformer who says the forces of hell are op- Josing him is flattering himself. The concert of 'nations seems to .ave degenerated into a French solo with anvil accompaniment. We have our doubts about the sportsmanship of sneaking up on the | North Pole in airships. -------------- hese days a man should be sus- * picious of any chap who offers him the first drink out of the bottle, In the old days "jag" cure insti- tutes flourished. Bootleg rum now cures its votaries by killing them. ERB The ideal husband is therone a 'woman uses as a standard while Voicing an opinion of her second one. { The happy homes are run on the give-and-take plan, The husbands | ing officials were unstinted in their | praise of the city and it manifold | | attractions, Some of them, who vis-| | tted Kingston for the first time, ex- | pressed their surprise at our hand- | some public and edygational build. | ings and at the beautiful new home | | which was so fittingly dedicated by | | the Masons last evening. Such gath-| | erings do much to make a city | | known and respected far beyond its | | confines. The Masons of Kingston | and district are to be congratulated | {| on the success they attained. A DANGEROUS POLICY. The Canadian Association of Bri- tish Manufacturers has brought to light a matter which is of interest to all Canada. It is the acceptance of the lowest tenders for advertised | contracts by public bodies. | - Tendérs, a difficult subject and one not ordinarily to be interfered with, have caused a lot of trouble here and there. In some cases one tender may be lower than another which, by reason of certain clauses, is more desirable. But in the | general run the lowest tender should receive best conéideration if fair trading is to be maintained. Recently, both in Ontario and Quebec, instances have been record- ed when Canadian firms were awarded contracts in total disregard of much lower tenders by British firms, and, in some cases, in a man- | ner that was not only unfair but again to the! « {a Sw hasbeen emawens has | But gallant French scientists | would | { thing by "ing | unquestionably | their contentions. d ship her products the navy" might not cease to be a joke, for the nation would have no use for such an appendage, but iss merchant fleet might not prove intangible, though improb- able Faesportowondd do by lease or agreem not ¥ield sovereignty, to receive an Swiss asguised would less at such a project is under con- indicative of from the re- rather though a fair may be to profit sideration Italy's desire sources she possesses than Switeerland, would bring rewards to to aid bargain STILL QUARRELLING. A clash like wh agitates "fundamentalists" and that "modernists" over construction and interpretation of the Bible would not have been {| @ matter of surprise in the Middle | Ages. But that the present, with its | boasted liberty and progress, should witness such a controversy is not if the world has been taught one experience, man or set of men can dictate to the consciences of others® damentalists are branding the mo- dernists: as anti-Christian for to doubt the verity of a literal the Bible in" cer- tain passages, Undoubtedly the fundamentalists think right. But ii the right to condemn for differing interpretation of they are is does not give them in opinion. The latter also "think they are a right to hold to right and have Medieval history is crowded with | records of such clashes and incident bitterness, but the history of these times should be free from them. By James W, Barton, M.D, Following in Baby's Footsteps. I was reading the directions of a medicine for children the other day] The mother was | . child a dose of castor ofl, the néxt day to give some nourishing liquid food, but not milk, and then _.ad- minister this medicine. Now 1 don't remember the name of the medicine, but I couldn't help but reflect upon the wisdom of the writer of the adventisement. You are feeling judt a little out of sorts, you don't feel like eating any- thing. You are not sick, but just have a heavy "don't care" feeling. Perhaps a slight headache. The thought of food doesn't really re- pel you, but when the meal hour comes, you just don't want any of it. What's the advice? Just the same as for the baby. Abgtain from all f for a r even two days. You'll Nye t long. In the meantime a healthy dose of | and Italy| doubt- | it is that no i Yet the fun- | dar-' the modernists | ttucted to im- | mediately stop all food, to give the | | o . | '{ THE ANANIAS CLUB. Clarence Ludlow Brownell MA, Fellow Royal Geographical Soclety, London, England. a RH Those who have been against underrated him, and those who have clung to him have perhaps sought to deify him. As Macauley said of | Warren Hastings, the real man is somewhere bejween the views of the two extremes. at either extreme, those who laud and those who do not, none will deny that the ex-president of United States | organized the famous club that bore | the name of the late and unlameénted | and very worldly wise Ananias, and that he was the committee on mem- bership during the years of the club's | existence. | The ¢lub came into existence some- what as follows: Colonel Roosevelt, as all the world is aware, had a pas- | sion for killing things. If a moose | in friendly curiosity sniffed round the outskirts of a ranch where the colonel happened to be holidaying, he would shoot it. It never occurred ¢o him to do anything else--to re- ciprocate the curiosity and friend- ship, for instance, and make a pal of thé venturesome beast with an | ear of corn or an apple or a lump of sugar. His instincts were Cro-Mag- | non. But in the business of killing, he! was clever. He went about it scien- | tifically. He acquired fame. The museums of the world coveted the) specimens he collected. As a natural historian, he achieved first rank. He had astonishing stories to relate of] what he had seen and heard of the | daring of the hunter. His knowledge | guided him in separating fact from | fancy in tales of the chase. He had an instinct for truth and a frankness {in discussing anything that suggest- | | ed Baron Munchausen. { | Nature Fakirs. In talking of fabricators and manufacturers and inventors in rela- | tion to stories of adventure one day | in Washington, he related several | anecdotes that he had read in books | | and declared that these things could | | not have happened. "These nature | fakirs belong to the Ananias Club" | | was the colonel's opinion, and he en- | | l]arged upon it though he did not quote from Jonmah's journal of the voyage in the whale. The phrase "Ananias Club" hit the | public right in the fancy. The public | appropriated the title for daily use. Post cards appeared on the back of | which: were blanks, which the sender | filled out nominating the addressee for membership in the new club. It! was quite the neatest way of inform- | ing one person just what another | person thought of him. The colonel.in Washington did not | use cards, however, He merely told it to the reporters, or, as associate editor, printed it in the Outlook. Re- porters never thought of approach- ing the colonial singley, however, Seldom fewer than five uld inter- view him, It was muc safer. Al single reporter did not venture to re- port. He did not dare to unless cor- roborative witnesses were present. Several Washington correspondents still at the capital will tell anyone why. Writers of hunting "fiction" were | small fry compared to many men | { whom the colonial nominated and! passed into the enjoyment of all the | | | | | Colonel Theodore Roosevelt possibly ! But among the men 7 con A Display of very Useful Christmas Gifts worth coming miles to see--every little detail belonging to a Man's Wardrobe Is Here BIBBY'S ELEGANT SHIRTS PIPIN POPLINS $4.50 Tobralco * Shirts--some swell $2.95 POTTER ENGLISH SHIRTS, $2.50 Dressing Gowns Bath Robes House Coats FINE QUALITY HOSE English, Irish and Scotch --- plain and fancy all-wool Hose. 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Ot coursy Woodrow Wilson could | | not escape membership... No one could diffef effectively and obviously | with the colonel and avoid election. | CHRISTMAS CAKES and PUDDINGS Special home-made quality. Cl (fo Bt ia also unbusinesslike. It is a laudable policy to encour- castor oil to carry off accumulated | privileges of membership in the wastes or irritating formations io | Auaniss Club. At the Gridiron | the intestine, the | Wilson, like Mr. Taft, had been "de- | give up and the wives take | liberate" in saying things about the "reins. Special Ice Cream, Frozen Puddings and a aa LD) ha: ma -- ---------- The man who depends more on cleverness than old-fashioned hon- 'asty is usually headed for an awak- ening. : The old-fashioned statesman aplit rain; but some of the new ones seem more interested in splitting the . ---- Correct this sentence: "Just keep 'your seat, dear," urged the hus- "] know where to find my rn The crossing of the Red 8a doesn't seem so miraculous after gets accustomed to crossing Streoct. _ Ctvilised man is like that kind egg. You dop't realize how bad ds until adversity cracks the ty shell. » Fa a man's mind develops more ra- than man's, which seems to gate that frequent change en- growth. most satisfactory job is that efficiency expert. The boss can tell whether he is loafing thinking. of . ---------------- 0 surgeon the 'shape face, or you can get it d by telling people what you of them. : the buyer is to be held equally with the bootlegger, why not dolloge? men who protest football seem to come mostly age Canadian enterprise--but it is dangerous when dome in such a manner. After such rebuffs have been repeated several times, British capital will simply transfer itself to other fieds of lactivity where competition is fairer, and the be left in the hands of a few Canadian firme. From such situa- tions come monopoly and all its abuses, not the least of which is the footing of a much larger bill by the taxpayer. A marrow and partisan policy in the awarding of the contracts of public bodies is dangerous, vicious ind not at all in the best interests of the nation. A POSSIBLE SWISS SEAPORT. There may have been a time when ! isolation from the sea was not g ser- fous drawback to the prosperi of & nation, but that condition is no more. . In the setting up of new nations affer the war, ports" weré eagerly sought even. though they were reached only through a corridor. No nation can attain its highest devel- opment in commerce unless it af- fords opportunity te shipping to reach Its boundaries without pay- {ng tribute to its neighbors. Swits- erland has ever been an inland na- tion, hut there is a chance that its lapg-sought seaport may be in the way of realization. [Italy is said to have made a proposal to the Swiss government whereby a sea outlet may be secured so the hither. to land-locked nation. which would free it from having to account to surrounding nations for the move- ment of all products to and from its borders. If Italy grants Switzerland a port, dountioss it 1s tor a consid®a- "whole show" in this country will| And finally come back to the ree- 'ular anticles of diet gradually. 'While the milk diet is perhaps our most useful food, there are so many people who dislike it, or with whom it does not agree, that other light foods must be used. It really doesn't matter very much just what you use, but the quantity at each meal must be small. And finally the medicine 'to give. Well, this is where I'll have to break away from the advertisement and be different. In what way? Why by not giving any medicine whatever. You have stopped piling in the offending material, you have rid yourself of its products, and you are gradually getting your stremgth of stomach, and strength of body back by eating lightly of proper foods. ' The job is finished. Why pour in some medicine? ss PRESS COMMENT |, parties should join in Lady Astor. Lady Astor in her Plymouth cam- paign for M.P. indignantly offers £500 reward if anybody cam prove that slumlandiordism adds to the income of the Astors. Bhe is safe enough. New York knows that the Astor family, never sentimentalists, have nevertheless been good land- lords.--Brookiyn Eagle. Christmas Gon ls. The ample provision which Scrooge saw in his vision of Christ- mas Present is nothing to the variety of goods of our season. The four corners of the world send us their treasures, our own factories have labored to contrive something better than the best of other years, and if ever there was a moment when all support of ; home industries this it is. On the Sine ARSENE RE nose of J. P. Morgan one evening, and nominated him vociferously. He | nominated Harriman of railway fame, and over his signature declared that the railway wizard's statement was "a deliberate and wilful un- truyth--by right it should be charac- terized by a shorter and uglier word." "Shorter and uglier word." There was a smack in that which "delight- ed" the whole people, especially as railways were in for a lacing then, and railway officials had much medi- cine to take every day. The phrase was in the mouth of many men, and children learned it too. It was as popular as Ananias and the post- cards. It was also immensely valu- able as an advertisement like the teddy hears, and no individual on earth knew this better thgn Theo- dore Roosevelt. If the colonel had not been a poli- tician he might have run a suwpsr- | advertising agency, that would have commanded international attention. He could have out-propaganded the kaiser, All by himself he might have won the war, Politics interested him much more than money, and he succeeded in that, no one will deny, The people elected him so emphatically when he'ran against Parker that hardly anyone noticed that his opponent was in the._race. > Parker received nomination to the Anamias Club and the "committee" passed him a few days before his politieal submergence, Quote the colonel: "Slanderous accusations re- peated time and again by Judge Parker." "He has neither produced nor cap he produce proof of their truth; "Judge Parker's accusations against Mr, Cortelyou and me are in- ventions," "The statements are un- qualifiedly. and attrociously false," and Judge Parker was at once and automatically a member of the club. Club, he shook his fist under the) oo... ang the trusts. "Now every- one of these statements Is simply not rue," asserted Roosevelt, and Mr. | Wilson's name was straightway on | the list. Once the colonel shot in an editor though he did not mention the man | \\ by name, because he did not know. At any rate, someone of the writers of New York Evening Post has won access to all privileges that the club can dispense. This writer spoke of "modest Mr. Roosevelt," gnd said | he "fawned." The colonel"s comeback was "whatever editor personally wrote that article practised every known form of mendacity," which is at least an admission of considerable capacity on the part of "whatever editor personally wrote." y HAUNTED BY A "GLARING EYE. Uncanny yision pursuing man whose bullets probably slew Russian monk. Sunday's Detroit Free Press. All leading news stands. A -------------- Lite is a comedy to him who thinks, and a tragedy to him who feels. Marron Pudding. LACKIE'S BAKERY 802 KING STREET < - TELEPHONE 141. Farms For Sale 1--150 acres, seven miles from _ Kingston, close to highway, good buildings, 112 acres * under cultivation; good fences, well watered, wind- mill. 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