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* Bh --~-- w, 7 i> Woman's DIO Chatter... By MAIR M. MORGAN 3 Jig LONDON CALLING! The other evening 1 was talking to Hubert Eisdell, English lyric tenor, who has returned from England and one of the first questions he asked was whether I had heard the B. B. C. broad- cast from London on April 11 when Keith Falkner and he broad- casted altogether eight songs and two duets. It was 1 p.m. in London and the scene Mr. Eisdell brought to my mind gave me quite a thrill to be living in 1933 when such things were pos- sible. The heavily draped room--silent. The two singers be- fore the microphone--then the announcer on the dot of 1 p.m. began to speak: "London, 'England, calling Canada, Newfound- land and West Indies." The hour in Toronto was 7 p.m.--4.30 in Vancouver. Naturally both the B. B. C. and Mr. Eisdell are interested to know what kind of reception listeners-in had. If any of my readers were fortunate enough to hear this broadcast 1 would appreciate it if they would write to me, care of this column, 73 Adelaide Street W., Toronto, if the broadcast came clear or cloudy or not at all, and if the announcer could be heard distinctly. % ¥ % ® * * ® & A TEA DAINTY Something sweet and different yet very cheap to make up is what we are all looking for these days for teas and here is a sweet that a friend of mine served at tea which proved very successful. All you need are equal parts of cocoa and sugar, add enough water to make a paste. Then cut fingers of bread, roll these in the paste then again in a bowl of dessicated cocoanut. The result is an interesting tea-cake and you can make about one hundred for a quarter. LJ Ed * B® A FILING SYSTEM A system that seems to work almost automatically and makes the paying of bills seem almost a game--almost but not quite, is the spike method as ome young matron has dubbed it. She painted three spikes that is those spike files used in offices, three different colors--red for unpaid bills, green for paid and white for recipes and keeps them on a small table much pleasure she transfers the monthly in her kitchen. With terrors from the red to the green and it is a constant reminder when she is tempt- ed to be extravagant, that some of the bills are still in the red! LJ * © LJ BOOKS Some people will find Thorne Smith's books irritating, others will enjoy his quite different humour. / Topper is the centre character, a mild, Ghosts" very amusing. I found his "The Jovial 'foolish and innocent man who is plagued by three couples of kghosts, low spirits of a baser kind, who 'erto uneventful life and plunge take control of hig hith- him into excitements which he had never dreamed about. These ghosts have the advantage of being able to materialize or become invisible at moments most convenient to themselves and most embarrassing to poor Topper. So far one does not associate Mexico and literature of her wn that will meet the demands of the world outside and it was with much pleasure that I came across "Marcela" by Mariano Azuela, who it seems is one of the most eminent novelists of con- temporary Mexico. made his name with his tale of the Revolution Los published in the United States as : lation swiftly followed in Spanish, French and Russian. ¢haracters may not be agreeable to many in order to understand Mexico, it is necessar of one of her native sons and thus become aware 0 ¢ountry of volcanoes and of flowers. It is quite fitting to observe that he first De Abajo The Underdogs) and trans- His of our standards, yet y to read the works f Mexico as a Opinions "The root cause of all our indus- trial and financial troubles is lack of confidence in the stability of inter- national wrelationships."--Lord Da- vies. < "Unemployment spurs intelligence." ~--Benito Mussolini. "Of all the senses, I am sure that sight must be the most delightful." -- Helen Keller. "All human progress has been made by ignoring precedents."--Viscount 3. owden. "Thos: who aspire to leadership to- day must realize that it is more im- portant to inspire goodwill than instill fear."--B, C. Forbes. "The more government we have, the less we care for it."--Will Payne. {The problems of politics, econom- ic: and ethics should be treated as scientifically as those of industrial production,"--Aldous Huxley. "Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of crea- tive effort."--Franklin D. Roosevelt. "The world is in more danger of being governed too much than too little.'--John W. Davis. "Great armaments are no longer a remedy for fear; they are the major cause of fear."--Harry Emerson Fos- dick. "American ballads deserve a great- ¢r place in music than they have ever been given."--Lily Pons. "If you believe the world can very well get along without religion, you probably mean, without the other man's religion."--John Erskine. "The prosperity of those who till the soil lies at the basis of world pros- perivy."'--Viscount Astor. ; "International sports meetings sow seeds of war, They only cause bad manners and ill feelings." --George Bernard Shaw. "Democracy does not champion edu- cating a man because he is miserable, but because he is so sublime."--G. K. Chesterton. «Tet us not ask for a return of our former false prosperity, but for a return of integrity and honor and responsibility and duty among us." -- Bishop Wm. T. Manning. "The reputation of a country d- pends upon the contribution she can make to the progress and happiness of mankind in art, literature and science."--Stanley Baldwin. "Banking needs men with the keen- est sense of the social responsibilities of their position."--Henry Ford. "In a rapidly changing world, wis- dom cannot resist in mere adherence to tracition."--Bertrand Russell. "Probably in the mirror of his past a man will mistake his vices for his virtues."--William Allen White. "True happiness is to be looked for in the living of the present moment." --John Masefield. : "I have enough of the devil in me that if any one prohibits a thing it becomes the one thing that I want." --Lady Astor. True freedom is from within; it can only come by the knowledge of truth. --McKenney. Believe, when you are most un- happy, that there -is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeteri another's pain, life is not in vain.--Helen Keller, Cheerfulness is like money well ex- pended in charity--the more we dis- pense of it, the greater our posses- sions.-- Victor Hugo. i, "a "TALKIE" THEATRE ON WHEELS Roadside audiences on the Pacific Coast are being entertained by a talk. ing-picture theatre on wheels. Amusing Anecdotes Of Famous People On the eve of his leaving London for Russia in January, 1918, on an important official mission, R. H. Bruce Lockhart, noted British diplo- mat, secretly met M. Litvinoff, So- viet Ambassador in London--unrec- ognized of course--at a Lyons tea- shop in the Strand, for luncheon, and a chat, especially a chat. It was an amazing meal, recalls Lockhart (in his equally amazing book 'British Agent"), during which he succeeded in getting from Litvinoff a letter of introduction, and commendation, to Trotsky, who, with Lenin, was run- ning the whole show in Bolshevik Russia. "The luncheon closed on a humor- ous note," reminisces Lockhart. "As we were ordering a sweet, Litvinoff noticed on the menu the magic words: "pouding diplomate." The idea ap- pealed to him. The new diplomatist would eat the diplomatic pudding. The Lyons waitress took his order and re- teurned in a minute to say there was no more. Litvinoff shrugged his shoul- ders and smiled blandly. " 'Not even recognized by Lyons,' he said." In June, 1914--shortly before the war started--Bruce Lockhart, then British Consul in Moscow, accompan- ied by a host of Russian bigwigs, went to the railway station to welcome Ad- miral Beatty who, with his suite, was arriving in Moscow on an official visit. "The train Jrew up, and out of a special carriage stepped a brisk young man," says Lockhart. "I naturally supposed he was Beatty's flag-lieu- tenant. I stood waiting for the em- ergence of the great man himself, and there was an awkward pause. It was ended very quickly by my supposed flag-lieutenant. "'How do you do? he said. I'm Beatty. - Introduce me and tell me whom I shake hands with first.' "I 'went hot and then cold. When I told him afterwards of my embar- rassment, he laughed and took it as a compliment." "Longfellow may have written about America, but the form of his language and his thought was the same as that of his English contem- poraries. He shared in their heritage, and added to the common stock. Judged in this sense--in~ order to make a point clear and rob it of all venom--there is as yet no Canadian literature, though many books have been written in Canada, including some very bad ones. "But 'Huckleberry Finn' was tri- umphantly obvious and undeniably American." Henry A. Lytton, who has recently celebrated his jubilee as a Gilbert and Sullivan actor, tells in "The Secrets of a Savoyard" this story of W. S. Gilbert: On one occasion, during a re- hearsal, Lytton sat down so clumsily as to break the seat prepared for him. "I said sit down pensively," remon- strated Gilbert, "not ex-pensively." Here's another: Gilbert once had a neighbor who was a jam-maker, and it seems that he wrote a letter to Gilbert complain- ing that his dogs were in the habit of trespassing on his grounds. Gil- bert replied: "Dear Sir--I will take care that in future my dogs do not trespass on your preserves. Pardon the expres- sion." How William Fox, the film mag- nate, was temporarily cured of the tobacco habit by no less a personage than Carry Nation, is amusingly told in 'Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox." It appears that at the height of her hatchet-wielding career, Mrs. Nation visited New York, and Fox engaged her for a "three-day vaude- ville performance at a salary of $3,000 a week." She was a great hit, and everything was lovely, until she came to into the office where Fox was. Says the magnate--as quoted by Upton Sinclair: "When I was introduced, I took the cigar out of my mouth, and four huge cigars which were in my pocket were visible to the eyes of Mrs. Na- tion. I said I was pleased to meet her. She said: 'I'm not pleased to meet you at all. I will not appear on that stage again. I will not work for a man who is an habitual tobacco field. "Of course, I was shocked at the idea of losing our stage performer, so'I said that I would quit smoking. She said I couldr.'t ever stop smoking. I said: 'I give you my word I will never light another cigar for twelve months.' I threw the rest of my cigars away, and Mrs. Nation resumed her lecturing. "I ate more candy in the first three of those twelve months than ever be- + Do You Know? + That in certain sections of agricultural Canada oxen are still in common use on farms? The photograph shows a yolk of oxen har- nessed to a hay wagon near Greenfield, Nova Scotia.--Canadian Na- ional Rallways. -- fore," adds Fox, "and it was not until November, 17, 1910, that I again had | a cigar in my mouth." Another of Mr, Fox's stories is about the Prince of Wales' visit to the old Academy of Music--then con- trolled by Fox--during his visit to New York in 1921. Sixty years be- fore, the Prince's grandfather--later Edward the Seventh--had been en- tertained at the Academy. Wouldn't the young Prince like to come to the theatre and occupy the same chair in which Edward sat? "I walked into the box with him," reminisces Fox. "Suddenly he turned to me and said: 'What is that gold chair doing there? I told him it was supposed to be the chair his grand- father had sat in. He asked to have it taken out as he preferred to sit in one of our regular chairs. The time allotted on the royal itinerary for the entertainment was to be just 15 min- utes. We had a funny dog comedy called 'The Yellow Dog Catcher." All the parts were played by dogs; there must have been 50 of them. The Prince laughed until his sides ached and wanted to know the breeds of the different dogs. "When his fifteen minutes were over I told him his time was up. He said: 'Now don't drive me out. Isn't it the oddest things that they pick out for you to do on a visit like this? I have visited every dead man's grave in New York and placed flowers on them. This is the first bit of relief I have had since I arrived. Now let me stay. "He stayed about an hour," adds Fox, "and impressed me as being just as human as any ordinary boy that came from one of our American fam- ilies." ee ee "s Wishes I wish that it were really true, That I could see the good in you, And you the good in me; That all of us would "gve a miss" To foolish, thoughtless prejudice, And practice charity. I wish that you and I could learn The other cheek sometimes to turn, And good for evil give; For this we know, and know full well, That wrong can never wrong repel; Tis love's prerogative! I wish that men of every hue Could share God's gifts with me and you, That all could brothers be; For scorn of but the least of these, Though sundered by the sounding sea, Still shames our pedigree. For of one flesh we all «re formed, By the same spark of life are warmed; We live, and love, and die; And Bo I wish my wish might prove A presage that we all shall love Each other by and by. x =kaul Preston. 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