Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-08-06
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ton dinner tonight Is a revival In an
other form of the old cabinet dinners,
very important functions in the poli-
tics of a hundred years ago and later.
In the great Wing and Tory ascen-
dancy periods at the beginning of the
nineteenth century cabinet dinners
played a great part in the machine of
the government. and were supposed to
have advantages over the more formal
meetings because at them the Sovc-
reign did not preside even in theory.
Instantaneous photoerap E1s of people
or animals in motion seldom. look right
or, still more seldom, beautiful. A trot-
ting horse, for instance usually comes
TOUT in the negative with the stiffness
of an automatorf. And the camera is
particularly cruel to tennis players.
YET there are exceptions here. The
French lady tennis player seems near
~ always to be arrested in a graceful
or at any rate a not ungracefu1, atti-
tude. This happens so frequently that
it cannot be mere accident. 1t seems
to imply that grace is cultivated as as
siduously skill. There is. in fact.
true and beautiful rhythm for every
motion of body and muscle, but very
few people take the trouble to dis
| cover it,
What is the Christian name of the
Prince of Wales? was a question sud-
denly raised in a certain club yester-
day. Three men confessed themselves
unable to answer. fourth believed it
was Edward, and a fifth thought it
was Albert. but neither was certain.
So the member who rather thought
suit a reference book. and returned
triumphantly with the informat ton:
Edward Albert Christian George An
drew Patrick David.
Bother Jonathan may talk little
slang, but he put much needed ginger
into insipid language. Jaywalking is
his term for zig-zagging across a road
to the CONSERVATION of eabmen and
the heated comments of bus drivers.
Short cuts of this nature are now
prohibited i'm some American cities,
and they are almost impossible in the
busiest parts of London. but the hint
might be taken as a new cry for the
Safety First campaign.
Lying in Southampton docks is
large, white painted steam yacht. She
is moored near the berths from which
thousands of our empires troops sail
ed for France to meet and defeat the
kaisers hordes. On her bows is paint
ed the name Meteor, and she was once
famous as the floating home of Will
helm H.
Now she is in the hands of work
men who are busy preparing her for
a new vocation as a pleasure boat I'M
der the auspices of the Royal Mail S.
P. company.
One Of the best known Of kinssIey's
lyrics, Three fishers went sailing out
into the west" was the sequel to an
unappreciated sermon. Invited to
preach one of series of>sermons ad :
dressed to workingmen in st. Johns
church, Fitzroy square. he asserted
that the duty of Christian priest was
ito preach freedom, equality, and
brotherhood in Che fullest. deepest
widest meaning of these three great
words: that, in SO far as he does
not, he is no priest at all. but a traitor
to God and man.
The parson whose pulpit he had
preached from Immediately and pub
licly protested; the congregation was
with difficulty deferred from express
ing their agreement with the preach
err; but he, having delivered his mes
sage, went quietly out and home.
II is going to be a slow business, but
time, and a certain gentle falling back
into pre-war habits. will do it. We
must relax, we must soothe and be
soothed; and we must help ourselves
and each other as much as we can for
a while.
All the little ailments we neglected.
the teeth we didn't trouble to have
stopped, the heavy baskets we carried,
the weary hours we spent searching
for food, all took their toll of US. and
we must pay the price as cheerfu1ly as
we can. This cheerfulness' is our new
Dit and a hard bit it is. for to have
any effect on ourselves or others 1t
must be genuine. But genuine cheer
fulness and warendities are incon-
pa toible.
Don't say You cannot have warren
dftis and be cheerful" Say. rather,
'fY OH can't be cheerful and have warren
ditis." The one must displace the
other. and it is up to every one of US
to make a GOOD fight not only for our
own sake but for the sake of those
VIC love.
Speaking Of the gallant attempt to
cross the Atlantic in the air. an even
ing paper remarked that Mr.. Hawker
would have with him Commander
Grieve to shade the danger and the
monotony of the 2.069 900 million revo-
lutions of the propeller" That Rolls
Royce engine was a much more Won
derful machine than anyone could
possibly have imagined if it's propeller
could make two billion revolutions in
crossing the Atlantic in. say. "A hours.
To accomplish that it would have to
turn over $4,000. 900 times a second
Even If it reyoived only 1000 times
second, 1t would need over 60 years to
aggregate two billion revolutions.
We get some faint idea of what a
Billion is when we remember that in
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