TIMELY TOPICS

Northern Advocate, 10 August 1934, Page 6

TIMELY TOPICS

VALUES OF HISTORY. When opening an extension of the Buckinghamshire County Museum, Lord Hanworth, the Master of the Bolls, said that one of the values of history was that it equipped us to understand and placed in our hands a touchstone by which to test the proposals of today. “We are able with knowledge of the successes and fail lives of the past,” he said, “to form a justev estimate of today and tomorrow than if we approached them without being equipped with that experience from the past Avhi'eh was called into being ‘that sublime instinct of an ancient people’ to quote. Disraeli. I was looking in Northamptonshire last Saturday at a lease for a year which bore the signatures of John Pym and John Hampden. Whatever may be the nature of the document and whatever may bo, the origin of such a sentiment, one cannot take it into one’s hands without a feeling of interest akin to reverence.” Lord Hanworth said the movement for' the collection and preservation of memorial records and county documents had met with a wide and generous response from all parts of England and Wales. <s> <?> <s> WORDS OF WISDOM.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stcaltl. l , and to have it found out by accident. —Lamb.

<j> <j> <s> ■»> <i> ' TALE OP THE DAY.

A novelist who writes stories that are perhaps too good to be best sellers was asked by a little girl the meaning of the word “penury.”’ “Penury, my child,” was the answer, “moans the wages of the. pen,”