MARRIAGE RUSH AMONG
BRITONS KEEPS GROWING
LONDON.—If you want to talk with
J)uvi(i Lloyd-George in these crowded
days of war you must take a meal with
him. Every second of the day of the
chancellor of the exchequer is pawned
for the gigantic work that has fallen
upon his department.
After one of the meetings of the pen
sion committee I went to his house fm
lunch and a chat. Suddenly there en
tered a voting man who seemed quiti
familiar, yet quite strange. lie was
Gwyllyrn Lloyd-George. one of the two
sons of the chancellor lias allowed to go
into the fighting ranks, who had been
allowed a week end vacation from
Camp Llandudno, where the Welsh
regiments are in training lie had to go
immediately after lunch to resume his
drill in trench digging.
lie seemed strange, though familiar,
because he was dressed in khaki and1
had grown several inches taller He is
now a strapping fellow, several inches
taller than either of his parents. Tht
transformation had come largely from
several weeks of hard drill.
Dress generally tends to the Quaker- I
like. Men do not go half so often to the!
tailor. I have heard it said, half jnk- ■
ingl.v hat wholly in earnest, that novva-I
days it is chic to he shabby. A middle I
aged bachelor who took to his evening I
dress and a gorgeous buttonhole nightly I
with Die rigid severity of a religion* j
duty startled me by turning up at aj
bridge party in tweeds He had become!
a special constable, and, after a life of
easy enjoyment, is walking the cold,
rainy streets from 2 to 6 in the morning i
Women show the same tendencies.
Fashionable dressmakers are doing
badly. The fact that evert woman is
doing something for the soldiers has
made knitting not merely universal hut
an ubiquitous occupation.
The war fever is raging is strongly
among the women as among the men.
The marriage rate is going up by
leaps and hounds. The young officer
appears at St George's Hanover square,
within forty-eight hours after sleeping
on straw and w iding in tho trenches ai
the front. The wounded soldier comes
home, is patched up In a hospital,
rushes to the young woman, sets off
to the church amid an admiring and
enthusiastic crowd, and goes to the
front again.
I have iieard the fierce rush for mar
riage explaned by the psychological
law which Schopenhauer reveals and
George Bernard Shaw illuminated in
“Man and Superman,'' th€ law called
“the will to live." It is certain that a
quarter of a million virile young
I tritons who may be sent to their graves
by the war will lie replaced next year
by a new generation of their health' !
children.
The marriage rate has been increased
by a change in the official attitude. It
lias been the consistent policy of the
war office to do everything to keep the
army as far as possible celibate. An
army so mobile that it was read' to go
ftom Aldershot one day to the farthest
point In India on another laid to be
mainly celibate.
The result was that a limited number
nt soldiers received permission to mart'
and that those marriages which were
tint hy premission did not exist in the'
eyes of Mip war office.
The new army has changed that as
well as other things The other evening
1 I met a young follow, uniformed in
| khaki, Knglish by birth and sentiment.
I yet having a good deal of Belgian
blood, as his relatives had for genera
tions carried on a big business in Bel
gian. He is married and has three
children and an income of several
thousand pounds a year: yet he is ser
ving as a private soldier
A voung barrister just getting a pr.-ic
j tire said to a comrade that he “cotildn't
! rest," so he started off in a mine sweep
ing operation in the North Sen
The admixture of all classes in the
army and the larg • proportion of y oung
married men has rendered Impossible
the maintenance of the old anti-mar
riage rule The breakdown of the celi
bate system has led to many curious
consequences and it is bringing out
the gigantic propositions which the
tidal wave of enthusiasm for war has
reached.
The war oftice sends weekly an allow
ance to tiie wife of each soldier, and
he is expected to augment the allow
ance by a portion of his pay. w hich is I
mostly 12 cents a day. The widow of
a soldier gets an average of $3.12 nj
week, with an additional sum for eaehj
child.
The following incident is goinr the
hounds The commanding officer says
i to a Tommy indistinguishable from any
other:
"Surely, m.v man. you can't grudge 12
cents a day for the girl at home "
"Well, no sir " Tommy replies, "but j
you see I have already allowed her an j
allowance of $10,000 a year."
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DIFFERENTIATING
THE DIRIGIBLES
The following notice, captioned "Let
I'k Not Mistake Our Hirigibles for the
Zeppelins,” appeared in Le Petit lour
nnl of Paris:
In the near future French dirigibles
will make ascensions in the suburbs of
Paris, chiefly to the south of tlie Seine.
These ascensions have been planned to
take place during the day. These dir
igibles must not be confused with the
Herman dirigibles. The French dirigi
bles are yelloiy in dolor, while the (ter
mini ones are gray. The French dit i ■
gibles carry in their rear a standard
from which floats the flaming national
colors. Cockades, ton, in tic* same
colors are painted on different parts of
l lie dirigible.
The appearance of these ships of the
air should rouse no emotion in Hie
spectators.
Should, however, any Herman dirigi
bles lie iglitcd hearing down b\ day
[upon Paris, stringent measures, pre
\ iously determined upon, will be taken
iit> against them. I'm- instance, they
will ice put to prompt (light l>> our
many situadrotis, which have been com
missioned to protect the camp which
is cut off from Paris.
CONFERENCE ON LOANS
FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
\EYV YORK.—Henry Tlruere, city
chamberlain and secretary of the may
or's Committee on t'nemployed, con
ferred with committee associates, labor
representatives and business men at
the city club on the plan whereby loans
are to be made to worthy men and
women to tide them over the period of
u n employment.
"The desire is," Mr. llruere said, "to
form small credit unions in different
localities and in different lines of work
with a small central committee that
shall pass upon the needs of the appli
cant and tho advisability of extending
it. It is thought that in this way the
loans, which will he based on character
will lie given only to the deserving and
in such a. way that the idau of charity
will he elimited."
GREEK-BULGAR DISPUTE
THREATENS BALKAN WAR
LONDON,—The persevering steps
which have been taken to bring about
an understanding between the Christian
Balkan States, with the idea of securing
tho neutrality of Bulgaria, apparently
have not met .with complete success,
according to dispatches received in
London from tho eastern capitals, and
Greece, Servia and Rounmnia are pre
paring for eventualities.
During a discussion of tlie budgi i in
tho Greek chamber of deputies, At.
Theokotis is reported to have declared
that the speech recently delivered by
the Bulgarian premier regarding Atac
odonla, which Bulgaria considered
should have been ceded to it after the
last Balkan war. constituted a menace
while tho Greek minister of finance
said that Greece was making urgent
military preparations to maintain its
liberated territory
Another dispatch front Athens says
the Greek government lias forbidden
the exportation of corrals. Ilnur, cattle,
forage and arms.
AT THE NEW EAGLE.
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mous Atherton Bourbon whiskeys, Dis
tilled spring 1904-1905, bought in band
and reduced to 90 per cent, by U. 8.
government by the bottle or gallon.
WHY EAT POOR BREAD.
When you can get GOOD. WHOLE
SOME Bread at 5c per loaf.
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NORTH POLE OAKERY,
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NOTES OF !
SCIENCE
A Freneltman bus invented a flex-,
iblo .steering wheel shaft for autumn-1
biies,
Tho I’nited States produces more
copper than all tiie rest of the world
together.
A man's lungs require. twi< e as much
air when lie is walking as when resting,
q uietly.
New South Wales is said to contain j
morn kinds of flowering plants than all
Europe.
Lacquer and varnish can lie removed
from metal with a mixture of ammonia
and alcohol.
For carrying haskets that lack
handles of their own a folding wire
handle luis been invented.
Work lias been begun on the elec
trification of the railroads in and
around Sydney. Australia.
A pharmacy preparatory course for
boys has been introduced into Chicago’s
public high schools
Publicly owned forests of the I'nited
States contain more than one fifth of
the country's timber.
Swoden is now making about 3,uuo 000
matches a day, exporting approximately
2,000.000,000 boxes a year.
Tiie wind pressure on wires strung
upon poles is estimated at half of that
on flat plates of equal area
A garment hanger has been patented
that folds so compactly as to occupy
no more space than a pocket knife.
All of Berlin’s sewerage is pumped out
of the city to disposal farms which
cover an area, of about 40.000 acres.
Thin fabric moccasins have been in
vented for protecting a person’s shoes
from dust while driving or motoring.
A device has been invented to meas
ure tiie magnetic effect of iron and
steel parts of a ship upon its com
passes.
British scientists have discovered in
New Guinea a race of pygmies living
at an altitude of about 2000 feet.
For temporary use a gas burner over
! which fuod can be cooked and which
can be hung on a wall has been in
j vented.
Virginia uses more wood for boxes
and crates than any other state. New
York ranking second and Illinois third.
China, which is believed to have th«
greatest deposits inm ore in th*
world, is beginning to «• \ p**rt pig iron
j A glass alld » libber siphon t < • di i\\
j cream from tin* top of a bottle of milk
in a sanitary manner has been patented
| For storing clothing there has been
I invented a paper bag into which germ
I nr insect killing gasses mn be injected
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