WITHOUT PREJUDICE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 288, 31 August 1921, Page 4

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

NOTES AT RANDOM (By T.D.H.) Rugby Union management nowaday* seems more concerned over finance than football. De Atolera scorns the idea of Sinn Fein accepting Dominion Horae Rule from Britain, but at the same time. thinks it is generous of Sinn Fein to offer Dominion Homo Rulo to Ulster. Queer, isn’t it! Examination of tho weather records shows that during tho past fourteen years the 17th of September was fine seven times and wet seven times. The nearest Saturday to that date was fine pine times and wot four times. I am sorry to depress my football reader® with this information, but there it is. "Treat tho other fellow rough,” says tho "Rural New Yorker” in what might bo called free prose, “and you help to make a tough. Treat the other fellow right and he’ll soon forgot to fight." Soulful girl: “J ust think of it 1 A few words mumbled by tho minister, and people are married.” Young Juan; “Um—and a few words mumbled by ft sleeping husband and people are divorced!" Countess Markiewicz is Minister of Labour in Ireland’s topsy-turveydom, according to a cable message yesterday. Born Constance Eva Gore-Booth, daughter of an Irish baronet, she early show-, ed symptoms of an artistic and eccentrio. temperament, and bade farewell to conventional existence. As an art student • in the Quartier Latin in Paris she met a Russian-Polish, count, also a painter, and in her own words, "very poor and very shy." They married, and started portrait painting in Dublin, until the countess chanced to read a history of Ireland, and got in tow with the Irish intellectuals, who had discovered the Irish language. A course in the use of firearms followed as a natural sequence, , and with her own hand the Countess in 1916 shot a sentry at Dublin Castle, and dramatically kissed her pistol farewell on arrest. She herself also drilled and armed the Fianna, a sort of boy scout corps, out of which the so-called Irish Republican Army grew. In Mr. Erskine Childers, Countess Markiewicz must find a kindred spirit as erratic as herself.

The boat, says a sardonic paragrapher, drifted out on'tho sunlit sea. The mai and tho maiden were silent and a littlf sad. H's leave was ended; the Jimi for parting had come. “Dearest, hj breathed, softly, “will you float with mo always—down the stream of life? “Tho same as now?” she whispered. "Tho same as now,” said he. t “I will, gladly!" she cried. He was rowing, doing all .the hard work; she had the helm—she steered.

A grim-faced matron approached tn® window at the bank, and said: "I want to know how much money my husband drew out of the bank last week. 1 am sorry, but I cannot give you this information,” was the answer. Vi ell, the impudence!” snapped the woman; “aren’t you the paying teller? ‘ 1 madam," was tho calm reply; but lam not the telling payer."

Berlin policemen, seem to 'be easily shocked. According to a London writer, public kissing is one of the German "verbotens,” so seeing a likely walking in the Zoo a PoHfenmn stalked them on the chance that they would “publicly annoy” him. After halt an hour—stolid young people these German lovers '-they did so, and he ar rested them The prisoners shared the fate ot most of the other German prisoners we have heard so much about at Leipzig thev were acquitted. The policeman, I .hope, was laughed out of court. He must f be a relative of the old lady who saw a man bathing from tho beach near hei house and wrote to him requesting ban to go further away. He apologised humbly, and next day removed himselt half a mile. Then the old lady wrote again' asking him to go still father away, as she f° und tKat wlt^.,^ he aldot a good telescope she could still see him quite easily. Some people are' happy unless they can complain of bein„ shocked.

The oldest; joke is eaid to be the one about the I'rishman who dvnamite in. a quarry. Ho let a suck drop, and the whole box went up, taking Mike with it. Tho quarry boss came around later and said to another Irishman: “AVhere’B Mike ’ lies gone, replied Pat. “When will he b asked the boss. “AVell,” replied Pat, if he comes Baek as fast as ho went, he 11 be back yesterday.” .

Two very small boys in Talavera. Terraco a day or two ago worked themselves into a passion over tho respective merits of "Robert the Bruce” and "Richard of the Lion Heart” as men. The argument arose over these two past champions would haie dealt most Severely with the Germans had their services been available in ate war—quite an interesting speerdaHnn in its wav. Tho youngster whose hero worship turned R<*OTt the Broce no doubt did not realise that a distm guished descendant of the great.boots Ba directly related to Robert Lie Bruce and some of the family "did their bit m the grim years following on August, 1914.

Dr. Bumpus is urging some of his influential municipal friends to move mediately for tho appointment of censors oSithing costumes. Last year, says the Doctor the stylo of costumes worn at the beiiches was left almost entirely to the beacncß wearer, and many of thQ S ''conscience" 0 suits literally shrieked for tho veto of the costiune censor, and the needle of tho beach tailoress. J h Doctor is not leading the world m th movement. At tho Chicago beaches iecentlv seamstresses, with pins, need ro, O X- h tho e who Violated recent proMbßtans’against tho display of t-much of tho wearers ot some of the suits.

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS. The dreamed-of, lookod-for days are her. In fiurouit through a brave world, wide and vast. Those holidays of which we used to ShoweTfairer lands, lit by a rosier beam. Than Age finds in the universal scheme. Thank God, new eyes still see the same old gleam! FOR pessimists. Spend your dreary days a-thinkin’ Of the sun, Laugh at storm, and wind, and take tnem In the run, Ror the sun dries up the mud And kills the gloomy cloud. Just forget, and in the dull day. Y’ou’ll be proud I