ROUND THE WORLD

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 39, 21 February 1929, Page 2

ROUND THE WORLD

NEWS AND VIEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS. . j VIFiTUES OF SCIENCE. CARRIED T() EXCESS. Tlio principle,. underlying the advice -.riven ns in early youth, to count ten lie fora gving rt “' R t° that unruly member, tbo tongue, seems to liftvo been curried further end ieducod to fine art by tbo husband who, it was stated in, ji London Court of law, bold no communication with his wife except by letter. 'Tin's- is by no means Ihb fi'’»t instance of a man refraining even from good words in his own house (comments the “Morning Post”). Flocrntes’s easier loquacity at the street corners was duo in no small degree, wo suspect, to. the silence imposed upon him, within doors by Xantippe. The gentler isex, as Rupert Brooke was fond of reminding us, is prodigal of speech, and in all well-regula-ted houses not only opens, but closes all debate. Mrs Handle’s “Curtain Lectures” owed their pnrmlaritv far more to their photographic realism than to any imaginative artistry. Tbo autocrat at tbo breakfast table is never the so-called master of the house. Ho wilts and wines nnseen behind the flimsy barricade of his newspaper.

“0! That those lips I™d sang: the bachelor-poet Cowpov, hut had ho lived to listen to the talking film and the singing dancers of our day he would have recanted. Hare "Ben Jenson specifically nshs his Celia to drink to him only with her eyes, and while dilating on the fascination of flowing robes and -unbounded hair expresses no desire to hoar her talk. His ideal woman was epieaeno. Men complain in these days that railway carriages reserved for smokers are usurped by the other sex. Let them substitute tho label “Silence”' for “Smoking.” It ought to ho more generally realised that 011 r host-loved heroines are those who talk least. Imogen and Cordelia scarcely ever open their lipsMrs Harris and Mrs Mai a prop never stop talking.

the foreign legion. young MAN’S EXPFBI FNCFS. Two young Englishmen, who have served in the French. Foreign legion in North Africa have reached home, and are waiting to keep a tryst with three other legion comrades in the West End of London. Quo of them told his story to a “Daily Mail” reporter recently. He is Air Thomas Wewego-,Smith, aged 2(> years who three months ago joined tho legion at Dunkirk. Giving an account of his experiences, he said; —

“I was drafted to Sidi Bel Abbes, in Algeria, and there met other Englishmen. One ' was John Wadd, a north country man, who had been a butcher; another was known as Toby Mortimer©, who has readied his homo again in Plymouth; another was known ,ns Bert Newlands, the son of a man well known in Belgium, and the last was known as Douglas. He practised as a doctor before be joined the legion. “While the officers *of the legion are docent fellows, the n.c.o.’s, who are mostly Germans, are brutally cruel.

“Whenever iwo Englishmen (met, escape was almost the sole topic of conversation. AVe agreed finally to get away as best wo could, and to meet on Bth December outside a restaurant in Piccadilly at 3.30 p.ift.. If one of us failed to get there it was agreed, if possible, to insert a personal advertisement .in the “Daily Mail”- saying be was delayed.

“{. inflamed my eyes and was sen! to Oran for medical inspection. The doctor, thinking I was going blind.

ordered niy discharge. A\ r ;id<l was to make a dash for Spanish Morocco; while JNowlands and Donplas were co make for a Mritish sliij> in tint Mediterranean. They are either on tiled way or in prison, by How.

“Tho j>r i homsi in Algeria are terrible. Jf 0110 is pnnisheil one has to turn out at 5 sum, with, a pack )i!le;l with aa ml , and then march, round a square, in tins broiling sun until If a.in.”