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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13710, 26 September 1908, Page 4 (Supplement)

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"■; a -speaker., everyone ia-tue. early .stage •a?i|d, "and,, later,.- regarded.' with opensafwhfid'' IsxsutMlfil "hsed up, an intolerable * ihh&:~ lii, admiiustering. repriinsftd|hto • thfe* - h4rd-up'.folk : of ,towu for their l-surroundings and becoding content with them.;" -everybody formula of words, lasT it caine. - ' .•We had-%o? met," this phrase and I, & years, .and the encounter .one quita a start; a lurking aojmtcion .hatT-lodg-'exiat&i' that' it was tftnced..; Once * re-int-rodu<Xit -it had a «2utiuS»:ofTshoiring*Jiyely: proof of vitality, Jb» <the>\ gjbntfeman _ became .infatuated, p}syiag..W>th nothing else during the re- , - Aping betwn£fwas> the at. \ brarib «i •raytiuiig regrettable 'im-wc s«-*ial. »js tpdf. "=id ape one's bettors, wig to wear tße'lion'* f skin, braying ~ 'the while ; their betters constituted i&jjjke&Zts t ridiculous, giving, excuse to the .Jogker/on - for, laughter. >As we fol Iqwed-.tbe. chairman, at" the end, from I 'noticed' that'he hurried fanraxd- 't9„ speaks to that ' well-dressed' jnrTrgidhfaE ->. „ i ~. \- "ASt.- "say,- Sir Thomas!" he, remarked, j ff it -«Psl too. much,-, wish you'd ' fetine* tl|«raddress',of'jTour, tailor. i n'irockcpats'hare never'reallv satis- , irWi"; 4 '' •' - ": - >.f'' EHpar-THE, POTJP3T.F&jpmmir beei\ .sozm*thing beside . chjupt that made the 'tefo*iha:3agrpear v old-fashioned.- Years ago lijdffthe pnrpita 'in .'England selectittg itekt*. .which; gave "'excuse for alludi» * }{ ;**bi' ! thjß" country village ', where at »■a>' l>oy r -" : lived/ 'the ..morning.. sermon ini to* - the> evening , address a£>£be .Wesleyan '.Chapel was sure, to be Tiftitt nn words, taken' from Re jyoil;an,; the. contention -waa/ 'be to", remain. position. -in k chosen .protest tie. 'else' but impiety.'- \ '•/ --\ ' *-pulprts> *"nojradays' .have taj^jihje^Tffse^rieriy---pf■. changing methiar/a» ;very- conjjdcrable .^ar^rienc6 > .«oe4' they, appear jawjidr fegfet"'/*?-' frighten their-;' coiypegirtiong *with. bogies',- or to treatvthemJasirewless and order them?i>to- 'Egep'- still.;. 'Jndeed,.iin some tf&ta£_tft chapels, are in; social work, M- such a rate that, mid , dk-sgedT- .members"'. can' scarcely -be - able *tb»■ojofe .contrive teaching <of form* *% v cdnstirutes '.the adroit use ,to, *ake 'up the IjaQdonexVand 'induce - him.' to--move.. It ;an " policeman who sitt^peraonaU' bis - voice. - ,agw; am' I to. tell yom to- move alongl'.' " . - *Y '^sccto' r would , for «nje r ' agreeV" 'and •on ■* aii-r appointed Sun day ( «gnali9e -complete "detachment from the.'old .sj&le by preaching sermons coun M&C« "^Syone-*' about,' without iajjnitater walkers. . v.' .> /-For. -tin> is what all admirable - • They. hare aeifottsl^-a*" mbdfet' • which .appeared" more petf«cr-tnto-:the»nsetvjc6; have thereupon matt** it' to'"improve that they nriglftr : motv nearly .approach" this ideal. »-.** form of .imitation which !«*• the ceedmg'that which', btlongs to the ori «]Baf. ' * v ?/ *<*--'*,. » i sffa* folk in the pro ; ie^oSn/«^|he.theatre hive an art which f tKSßfet.m/tune'w'iJir, my," desires, and I } iwe c ;nev« ; r'»yet succeeded in pursuading i an' ordinary "youth comes on i i^Oß^ert' platform, .'announc-'ng, " Ladies £i *^^% e^~ I "P? ,D P o * e r; , o von ' a - *sr Jmftattaoa of. well-known public per first will U-r and I sir •Jiwwed.*, There is so much cf fh< mentey in;all>f;us that few can concej imitative trick. «» Hisphyed;,; we are f able ia gke th, &a 4 apßToVil do. obserriog that "a mat f ->orkei h'ji way up -from th, **s¥ >SSW- excellency and , commend *hJyi9t the. officers' mess. c of former ages of -kmd aire not nearlv «o aoawroof ate they ought' to be. fhere aCQI ren£|its.some coofution iu regard to the fcmijra-.'ih the Catechism, and it anpepra t*be asGumed "thepromise is "to do my iinty in that state- of life nnto which it hi-, pteased- God -to call m*," when as, ?* ,? I *.*!*fV-J* i ld.koow. the future Wr-j a»- particularly indicated. Whati'ver the eiw, ambition makes- a poor ehow m r 0111 ! al f* ifl ' * 6tall *"* *w«erved for »-y Shepherd's Bush most of the ex Usjtors-would tie- foreigners," or tha-v re «■% natoalised. Either the. LondonwW| poase& it, ,or tbey cannot «- areUe it'tißafully in their own town. » Alnbitfon.is a "plant which sometin>«> rer" JF» U>*e transferred, a new soil and a h atmosphere enabling ir to do won ffafa. np' one who wriuw" about toun is with the welcome rommuni efCWOf Jfront, Londoners in. our colonic.;, kttint£at a note- of prosperity with aigtnuK atffection for the neighbourhood in, which tbey were born and brought up. Tiuft) aflection, 'it may be observed, u never;for London as a whole; the town i* too large to be bugged; some particular' divi«ion.*is takeen. and the letter from 3Jfe> Sooth. Wale* will begin with. " I reaaember Kentish- town in the early seventiidjand «ome of my happiest hours wore •pAt there." r-Whatever the buds of ambition «n coa£raged-an<l fostered in the County Coun ell, schools-rand an increased wLviom «»ldd teake more of th»< —they aro srpped and frostbitten by the chilU action abuwa toward* the .child who hat, a'fourteenth, birthday. In this, the i.ld days were 'better than tb«*y knew, for they d*d ofkr apprenticeships, did r**.seo> a- system icalcutated to encourage the youngster to dream of the higher stoprs. >of late year*, casual labour that can last only (of three or four y.'ar* has made iteelf eoßtpunjou» by wing the beckoning finger, and youth, finding iweti deluded, rlslrf fiTem-'up hope; the alternatives at# ape so enchanting t» to.tw able to gain attihtioo. and the desire of the hard-up paiestf, aaxiouß for the immediate shilling rather than th* pro^pe»ruv*-.flovereign, «-t----ttft the fite «»f the child. It ««irri tinw that action wa* taken m the matter. Th«parent,, of a good deal of i>mpou sit»il»ty during nine ycaiti or so of the child'« life, finds at tb- <nil of that pt-rkMi « art of eitvum'tancwi when* w.«d<*n> ui.l discretion an» oec*esary in or*U-r that a career may be ww*ly Matted; ro<> «>fi«-n tb*s<» qualities, are miwing. The m.it<.-r i#. so ««*riou* that some of the rau-hwi.r.i* psecioufi to th* individoalnt: !*»me <f thphrase* <Wr for old laken naki- to :h----pre»«her, »*y w«U he wrapped in ii*up payer and placed on the top shelf. A good many men and woiwn in I.on don "baTe for years been a* ma&agera of 'chook: they rou«.c. u> t hat tttnW have gained wa l viiuulilo knoul*.l(j----wbk-b might b-* av*fally «rtei3t}«-<l or folk, posc«»S*ing equal aptitude and .m quaiot*oot\ could b» forn*'d »o:<> a cam mitte* of adtrtce. an«l tb*ir* would 1>« Uw d k cty : >to cooneel. and perbap* d;r«rj. the jmafwng-otf (Stage that cooxs to a l-,y r.r girl 'iia th* 1 bard up district* when ?h----tAseoer chake* hands and wishes the • hiUi foot! luck. -* ; f>ne > of the fir»it taskf would be to tups upv.i .41 yoangßtert in the mod «tr*nQau* uu rndg* to spe their bstWrs to :h- uttno t their ability.