The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-09
JUVENILE SUICIDES
 CAUSING WORRY Caused by Improper Read ing and Entertainment CANADA IS MODEL Lawyer Could Not Be Seen Because
 He Had No Wig-Fat Lady
CANADA IS MODEL
By PAUL LAMBETH

Roughly
 & By PAUL LAMBETH
 London. June s.41specia1.)- increase of juvenile suicides in England is a sub ject which is attracting much attention. Two recent cases have been seized upon as instances that something is radically wrong with the system under which the youth of the country is seeking the wild est sort of sensationalism. A girl of lg in, Wolverhampton told her mother School Is stupid. I won't go any more The mother first thought the child was icking When she found the girl de- termined she asserted her authority and next morning sent her still protesting, off to school with her books under her arm The girl drowned herself in nearby canal. The second case was that of boy of 10, who hanged himself in his bedroom "because, he wrote, life is horrid don't want to grow up and | have to work like father" Cases are multiplying every week. The school teachers and clergy say 1t is vicious read l ing and sensational entertainments which corrupt the young mind. while others blame the weakness of the home author ity and the severity of school discipline. | On the unimpeachabe testimony of Earl Grey, England learns that Canada | is really becoming a model among tenn perate nations His lordship says that during his recent tour of the Dominion he found that officers In his maiesty's Canadian guards had substituted ginger beer for champagne, and private Tommy Atkins Is drinking barley water instead of beer The announcement pleases the Church of England Temperance society nightly, but it is not at all improbable that the British brewers will send across the waters a commission of inquiry to test the brew offered Tommy and see If it is not possible to call him back to malt.
 This never could have happened in a United States court of law. But it is in thorough keeping with the dignity of the bewigged and begowned tribunals of Britain, While motion was being made by councel for Winston Churchill in his recent libel suit against London pnbli- cation a question arose which required comment by the opposing counsel. That gentleman was sitting right in front of the judge but he dared not open his lips. He was without his wig and gown. Technically. therefore, Mir. Hogg (the lawyers name) was invisible. although de facto, he was very much in evidence this particular Hogg being a porty 216 pound person, Churchill's counsel laugh ingly indicated his learned friends pre- dicament. 'I fear" he said. my friend cannot be seem You can see him. quoth the judge. but I can't" And his lordship winked at Hogg.
 Here is a story with moral to it. San dy has ever been from Missouri, but there are times when caution is required
 in satisfying ones curiosity Harry Fow
 Ter a Glasgow man, went into a museum and heard bra laddie on the stage an nounce that Miss Louisa Moore famous fat lady. also on the stage in the full pride of her duly certified 65s pounds, was looking for a husband. Fair was this fat woman. but not anything like 40. She owned mp 10 just 26 summers. When Fowler heard that she wanted mon" he ascended the stage to investigate, As he offered her his hand in marriage he let that member rest upon Miss Louisa's plump shoulder. Quick as a gatling gun the offended beauty in plump plenteous- ness struck out with her right and sent Fowler plump into the midst of the au- dience She followed him, tore his col lar and plaidie into ribbons. closed both his eyes and left him in urgent need of much court plaster and a new set of teeth And when Fowler took his in dignant unreceptive love to court the bailie packed him off with this cold com fort; Harry. my lad an ye go courtn', choose a we'un, lad. choose a we'un!" And Fowler, learning wisdom, responded; "A weel, baillie. a weel
 Much nonsense clings like ivy to the memory of famous men. For instance, discussing the recent newspaper merger in which the London Daily News figured as the predominant part of stress was laid on the association of Charles Dickens with the early start of this organ of re- spectacle liberalism. As matter of fact Dickens edited the Daily News for less than three months The pressure of diurnal literature was handicap to him in the fiction which he had then under way--in March of 1S46 These were aris- tocratc days in the literary life of Fleet street Proofs were brought into the editor on plated salvers; the printers
 'devil" was a gorgeous being in plush and satin-Dike called this Minos the midnight footman of Charles the Great" Thomas Carlyle was assigned to write a sum story and he offered as ''copy" part of what afterwards appeared in "Sartor Resartus" It did not get by the desk. There is so much that Is really amusing and informing about great men's lives, 1t is remarkable that here in the very metropolis of fact, facts are the scarcest coins current.
 It is not generally known that no crown pieces have been issued during the reign of King George " Considerable numbers of horns have been issued. but the crown piece Is never likely to be issued again. Nonc have been struck for 10 years.
 Three hundred girls who struck work at Rootle iute factory prevented the de- livery of goods. The company sent ont wagons laden with wool packs to the Lancashire and Yorkshire north goods station. The girls accompanied them, and at the station protested against the unloading. The railway men thereupon refused to handle any of the goods and the lorries had to return with their loads.
 In the early days of the automobile motorists were accustomed to sound the praises of the roads on the Continent to the disadvantage of those in this coun- try. Today the position is quite changed. for in no part of the world is motoring conducted under more favorable condi- tions than in England. This applies espe- cially 10 the machines themselves, as the absence of the long straight stretches prevents any motor car being driven at it's full power for a longer period than a few minutes, while the roads themselves are smooth compared to those of Italy, foi instance. The manufacturers of cars in that country realize this difference and consequently build their vehicles much stouter and stronger in order that they may stand the hammering on rough sur faces at a very fast speed seldom in dulgel in here in Esnglaud.