TWENCENT MOTTOES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11644, 4 May 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)

TWENCENT MOTTOES.

HAPPY SELECTION BY LONDON BOROUGH COUNILS. JrsT as the ordinary commonsense twencent man is puzzled to imagine how a borough mayor can hope to do his duty without a scarlet and ermine robe, so neither can he conceive how the ancient traditions".' of a twencent metropolitan borough can. be worthily upheld without a motto. Special inquiries made by the Daily Mail show that out of the metropolitan boroughs nine only have so far awakened to their manifest duty in this matter. Of the delinquents Chelsea has gone so far as to be thinking of having a common seal; Holborn is having one made, but draws the line at a coat of arms, which costs money. The twencent nine have in most cases chosen something characteristic for their motto. Thus, artistic Bermondsey has chosen " Prosunt gentibus artcs." That is to say, "Arts are good for nations/.'. a motto exhaling an appropriate savour of remoteness from the squalid things of life. Socialist Battersea takes " Non mihi, non tibi, sed nobis""Not I, not. you, but both of us.' Hammersmith has chosen the original sentiment, " Spectemur agendo"—" Let us be judged by what we do." In its coat of arms are to be seen two hammers, three horseshoes, and the headpiece of a- twencent suit of armour. Hampstead : "Non sibi, seel toti" "Not for ourselves, but for the whole shoot,' referring to the Heath on Easter Monday. The stag's head on the coat of arms refers to the beards of red deer which abound in these part*. Islington : " Dens per omnia"— Heaven through thick and thin," referring to the piety of the inhabitants. Kensington: " Quid nobis ardui"—" We are the men for hard work." Lewisham : " Salus populi suprema lex" "The health of the people is our supreme law," being a delicate allusion to the re?ent acquisition of the Hillv Fields. ( Stoke Newington: " Respica Prospice"—. lake a lesson from your past, and do better next time." Woolwich "Clamant nostra tela in Aegis querela"..." Our bolts sing in the tings quarrel," a twencent reference to yddite. is only fair to add that the Borough Jouncil of St. Pancras, though without a motto, has adopted a pretty device of St. Pancras jumping ou a heathen jSaracMi'a y*est.