TIMELY TOPICS

Northern Advocate, 31 October 1936, Page 6

TIMELY TOPICS

Words That Tell A Story. GRUB STREET. —The former title of Cripplegate, Milton Street, London, which was originally once the residence of authors of the less fortunate class, and the jest of the more favoured. From its being inhabited by these literary hacks, the name was familiarly used to characterise any worthless author , or any poor production.

Do You Know ? (1.) What is Panning Island? (2.) Who was Eurydice? (3.) What is an epilogue? (4.) What are the “Roaring Forties”? (5.) When was John D, Rockefeller bom? (6.) What is a feu de joie? Answers to the above questions are printed on Page 3.

The Week’s Quotation.

“Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof wrote Robert Louis Stevenson, “but in the open world H j passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield. All night long he can hear Nature breathing deeply and freely; even as she takes her rest she turns and smiles; and there is one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes abroad over the sleeping hemisphere, and all the outdoor world are on their feet. It is then that the cock first crows, not this time to announce the dawn, but like a cheerful watchvrlin speeding ;}the course of night. Cattle awake on the meadows; sheep break their fast on dewy hillsides, and change to a new lair among the ferns; and houseless men, who have lain down with the fowls, open their dim eyes and behold the beauty of the night.

Words of Wisdom.

Do not burden yourself zuith hearing a burden; it is a load heavier than you think. —Sevique.

Tale Of The Day.

First Caddie: “What’s your man like, skeeter?”

Second Caddie : “ Left-’anded, and keeps ’is change in ’is right-’and pocket.”