Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-24
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Many hands have been diligently en- gagged fo rsome time past in making i the artificial wild roses for Alexandra i Day: and no less than five millions the being distributed to the districts covered by the fifty-six committees The sum aimed at this year is 50,- 900, as against the z 36,000 of twelve months ago. To the effort many brides of June B have decided charmingly to contribute by wearing the flower and persuading their brides maids to do the same, thus making this ninth Alexander Day worthy of its obect and a special indication of regard to the gracious lady who created it. Children Under Canvas-By restor- ing permission to boy scouts lads bri- gades, and children's holiday organ izations to pitch their canvas camps | as ill pre-War days the authorities are doing something really tangible in 1 the direction of settling the holiday problems-for the youngsters at any 1 rate.
 :, The Hampshire AnniWarsary-Four years ago today (June 5 the Hamp- | shire bound on a mysterious voyage
 met mysterious fate, and carried in l to the unknown hero of many mys- teries. Silent and impenetrable in life Earl Kitchener went out by q secret door, so inscrutably that for many months his most devoted Worshippers refused to believe in his departure
 History will give K. of K a high i place among our strong, silent men, as 1 one whose only fault as a soldier was | that perhaps he tried to do more than bis duty.
 Strikes ard Summer Timely select ing June 26 as the date for the com I mencement of their strike. in the event of their demands not being acceded to. the gas workers of the country can claim that they are anxious to reduce the re- sulting inconvenience to the public to q
 minimum. Even in the extreme south
 where the long days in midsummer are shortest at the end of June it will be
 possible to do without artificial llumina ton in the evenings. Owing to the op-
 eration of summer time, at the end of this month it will be almost 9.30 in the south of England before the sun sets and effective twilight will last fully an
 other hour. In the north and west, ow- ing to the effect of latitude and longi- tude, in delaying sunset at this period 't of the year, daylight will last still long
 CT, in some places as late as II p. m.
 June's Cold Snap-Cold for the time of year. Not a bit of 1t, gentle reader } If you made a practice of keeping me COIOlOSISdl lSSOIN JOu hOuu UIlG
 that the second week in June is in s vcariaby bleak and chill True it came a little before it time this year
 but it was due at the moment of
 writing. We wonder that these an nually recurring periods of heat and
 cold, rain and fine, are never recorded , in the calendars we provide ourselves
 with each year. They could be fiarly
 accurately forecasted And we may = add (for recording in your diary), that T the cold snaps of May and June, fol
 which there is a meteorological expla-
 nation, are usually succeeded by warn d weather, whilst the spells of warmth IT in the little summers" of October
 and November are generally followed
 by increased cold
 Hands Off the Guards-There can bt
 new Liberals who will not synpathiz, with Harold Spender's protest il
 another column against the war offic, , proposal to subrnerge or, at any rate . subordinate the separate identity O Il the Welsh and Irish Guards It is al n entirely happy evolution, by whicl
 each of the four nations in the United
 Kingdom has come to have a guard s regiment of it's own; and the preseu 0 is the very worst moment for ever o appearing to go back on it. What
 ever the military motive for the wa
 offices scheme, political and nationa e consideration ought to be decisive il # the opposite sense. London Chronicle