MATERNAL SEARCH LIGHTS.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XI, Issue 1104, 10 December 1892, Page 2

MATERNAL SEARCH LIGHTS.

My dear Sir. — I told you so. Oh f it was a glorious viotory for ■ Bohennancnm George. And the most beaatifal thing aboafc it is the modesty with whioh ray son his treated the whole business, rind actually only informed the public that he voted for the ' winning candidate* Of coarse, after his unsuccessful backing of Hippo m Carnival week, it quite sefc him up to find that he bad voted for a winner this time. He was m great form, on Wednesday, m Mr George's tent opposite the Council Chambers, with a bar bandy at the next corner of the street where he could stand treat m ' honest beer* to, an unlimited extent (not afc hiS own expense, of course.) He camehoaa© that night m a very ' elevated* statf of mind and body ; indeed it has bed reported to me that his congratulations to tbe successful candidate were n^sfc tender if not slightly sentimental that th<j

•<crowd looked on, with mingled amusetnent and admiration ; and that an adjournment wns subsequently made to the aforesaid Bar, where eternal amity was sworn over a pot of 'alf-and "'ai^and « plan of campaign drawn up then and there against the old fossils m the Council «rho are to be mad* to dance to the jpiping of these two progressives. As you may imagine, some of those r people who find fault with everything, .are enquiring how it was that the mighty penius of Philalethes Porpus Bohemian . only succeeded m getting the successful i candidate such an unlucky majority, and f they are hep-inning to look upon it as a bad omen, and to prophesy that the jpfiftsent elevation to fame of both 80. ihernian and George is the prelude to an •abysmal plunge into obscurity, similar >U that executed by the late lamented IHc'rapty Dumpty. They are also saying that my son's disgust at Mr Thomson s advertisement is quite natural • my man would feel the same when the 'libellous gossip 1 which bad proved so nsef ul to the supporters of the candidate he was backing, was shown to be false. To be bowled out by a parson with a marriage certificate was unbearable, anj «nong»h to make even <ha mild nature o f my sou rise m disgust, and label *h a baker • a fool.' CDe Bnfc the worst of »11 is that iu a „ m the street is beginning tr .. man remarkable similarity * ' dli00?OT * Liberal Ministry and # . I ? etween *J e and the journal^, ° PP ° Dent »' lectures both wi» " IC . Ma ' a P ro P. who sistencv Tt ip x sacb unctaoQ 8 "won such a ; e rv J hinted that there is not cabinet * « "* differe ?°« between the nnrlnnr held a meetln ff '"1 the * bar meet' •° E the Clnb Hote V a « d * certain -ing that recently took pace m a bar ? ..rlonr, where a oivio winner and his jookay played a congpicnons part. The feon. member who oalled big opponent a ' liar/ is likened to the man who, having helped to defeat a candidate for the chief magistracy, added insult to injury by calling him a 'fool.' Aa for the 'sober legislation* which tee country now enjoys, it is Paid that the legislation of the city may be Pober after the same fashion unless the chairman of the council moderates the provisions of the plan of campaign. Lastly, they say that to send a hamper of refrigerated game home, at the expense of 'your glorious country 1 m exchange for a K.O.M.G. ebip, is not so very much worse than' to giro your vote to a civic candidate m exchange for 2 dozen cabinets, an opal enlargement, and the privilege of drinking * a glass of honest beer again. 1 1 What is needed is not the multipli--1 cation of advanced books, but them•- -• culcating of intellectual courage, the 'courage to remain ipnorant of many ' things' of a more or less foolish character which are contained m the column pre Bided over by that « king of shreds and patches'— Bohemian. So writes a mem » berof the Women's Institute, who ha taken umbrage at the suggestion tha f the new organisation was • precipitated and « crystallized' by a chemical professo 1 " and « some male adjutants.' I beg, Mr Editor, that you will allow me to give an emphatic deniel to the report that try son was one of the ' mft »e adjutants' of the « genial philanthropist.' My son's genuis is developed on tbe destructive eide much more than on the constructive fiide. His remarks about the Women's Institute have drawn from fome of tbe strong women' a sinister recommendation to be warnyd by the fate of bis X ish-y compatriot m Dunedin, and to take care lest his outer integument be cut into lengths and used to tie the shoes of the < ecstatic miss' and the < romantic bank clerk.' The Dave, for the nonce, worships at the altar < rf the « latter day deity,' ' the commit* * of three with power to add. My son is a great admirer of tbe Committee of Three : Philalethes, Chairman; rorpuj, Treasurer (it is all fudge, Mr itditor, about not being able to make a wife* n pnrae out of a sow's ear,) and f oh ;emian, Secretary 'with power to i 1, }° their emolument. At the shrine of this trinity does my boy offer his p.aily meed of worship, and fervently vow to take care of number one. The Chairman and Secretary of this Committee feel no doubt as to tbeir ability to lick «H creation into shape, and to reyiee anything from Genesis to the decisions •Di "the Court of Appeal. /Hogg M.P' refused to sign the pledge, and made 'a fool of himself 22?T' , M - A - likewise scorna tbe p'edge he Jores hia ' g l aBB o f honest 'beer he has a « penchant for the humor <of the vine, and when his heart is athirst, the barmaid knows better than to brine est bibendum ' Hogg,-M.P. « tried to make pohtica! capital' out of his virtues. Bohemian M. A., by correcting everybody by running' a tilt at the quintain of modern abuses,' by rebuking honorable members, by lecturing the Bench and Z?' *Z to make Jonraaliaiie capital ou of the virtne which he wears ao gallantly upon his sleeve. Alas 1 <we are arrant knaves all; believe none of At last another of tbe professions has had^its tnrn, and the Canterbury army had its defects duly pointed out to it. When the band failed to turn up, it looked as if my son and his trumpet were going to be left out m the cold, and he looked bo jolly miserable' that the 'funny • member of the company' took pity on turn and invited him to ba his ass ociate n the imitation of the farm-yard. In order to maintain the reputation of tbe *rft t f,myßo& was obliged to deqlinv

but as one good 1 turn deserved another, 'he warned the * cock-crowing' one Ib at a Fox is sometimes a dangerous neighbour to a larm-yard. I am, my dear Sir, Yours faithfully, The Mother of Philalethes Poßrus "BomsMJAtt.