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i The churchyarda of rural England aontaln many quaint, old-time epi- zaphs, some of them far more expres- sive, tha.n polite. They abound in thegsouth-West, and in Somerset, Denim, and Cornwall the visitor will be certain to find something to 1n- te and to amuse by visiting some °"¢ °l “l” Whkmw" 3m‘: of these ancient graveyards and m” mummy is at mngsbr g8‘ u leading the curious incriptions Dew“- n’ runs: whmh Wm be found on the wmth I-Iere lie I at the chancel door. stones in many places. A couple of He" “e I befmuse 1m poor‘ hundred years ago the local wit and Th‘ “ruler m ‘he more you pay’ thefvallage punster made the best of Bu‘ he“ “e I a‘ warm "5 ma» the ‘opportunity afforded by the I" 0cm“ also at one or two 0th: death and buriel of anyone whose Places h? the “me county‘ In It e demis gave scope for the exercise of neighbour's no" 9x Dartmouth were their "talentrW-sometimes with at- used t0 be ‘m epmaph (“ted 171'.‘ ‘m roclous results. _ mmn“ Goldsmith’ commander o‘ the "Snapdragon," a Privateer. Who History of Epitaph!- "turned pyrate, and amassed Brf-‘lll " _ riches." The stone has now til-WP- The practice of writing epitaphs on pelted’ bu, the following verse was tombstonfs, although not modern, 1s inscribed upon u. not so ancient as may be supposed. In prc-Christain times the Romans, Men that are virtuous fear the Lord, Greeks and other nations knew noth- And the devil's by I'\' friends Bdllled- ing of them, for the burying places And as they Infill col R Place then were simply marked by mounds Amidst the blest or hellish race. or, as in Egypt, by pyramids._ The Pray, then, ye learned clergy Show Egyptians, however, were the first Where can this brute, Tom Gold t0 mark the burying places 0f their smith, go, dead, but these markings were very simple and indicated just the name Whose life was one continued evil, of the deceased. In the early days of Striving to cheat God, man and evil. the Christian era. epitaphs were only Punning epitaphs to soldiers are written upon the tombs of royal per- not numerous. Here is one from a sonagos, governors, commanders of village near Bristol: armies, or persons who had rendered I went and ‘listed in‘ the tenth Hus- some great. public service. One of sars, the earliest allusions to epitaphs in And galloped off unto the Srcat Briiain was in the ninth cen- wars. m2“. zvlu-n Kcniu-tli Killg of Stot-jFighr for Milli" npil. miirli- u p "Iuniulion in which (‘0illlll‘_\' div, 3C gmuni-xl hzs Ullllll‘l'_\'ill(‘fl lo "cs-jyTn carn such glvuyv ;eem every; scpulclire or gravcstonc’ shy, lacrrd. aildjldOfll it with the Slrrn oflSnug I Sllllllvd llflnlf‘. lllli (lflllll $00" 1hr (‘n-.~.=, wliirh takc (‘are you do: took mo off m: rr- much as wcnd upon." In Eng- 3 Aficr a struggle with tho \l‘l1<)(l|)ll“l[,{ urul ihcrn ivcrr- srarcI-l_\' any cpi l clugll. iziphs unni iiir‘ clwcnth ccntury, and N _ _ _ W flmbs of the nobility and the great to be at least rather a sucpicion of gersonages of the land, and until the i ' , , ' _ k ' 14th century these inscriptions were mpmbflblhty about It

usually in French or Latin, the lat- Undemfiathtéhis filed: de r ter largely predominating. There es ° C n a '

One buried in Ashburton

And the other here.

Another “Irishlsm" occurs in an

Many or the most amusing epb epitaph at Plymouth, which states laphs ‘met Mm in our mgmhithat "Here lies the body of Thomas Chumhyards appear to be from be,“ Vernon, £341., dnly surviving son of caved husbands who seem to’ have Admiral Vernon" _ derived a kind of grim satisfaction Axwther “bun, mus time direct‘ at the ficccase of their wives. For in- "om Ireland) is contained m:

stance at scvcnoaks there is (or was) Peter Humps the following, ' Accidentally shot by his brother,

As a mark of respect.

quugjon 15 supplied by the followinfl epitaph: God takes the good. Too good on earth to Still’; He leaves the bad. Too bad to take away.

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The Departed Spouse.

55m“ m ‘he mmwry °! Andrew From the churchyard of Harford,

Dink“ near Ivybridge, we have:

Who dicd for peace and quietness Forty years I lived a mam’ sake: _ Twelve months I was a wife,

His wife was constantly scolding and one day I was a moth“ smmng’ Then I lost my life.

So he sought repose in a twin-guinea coffin.

Just two or three more: The next is rather ambiguous:

This spot is the sweetest I've seen in A SERMON 1N STONE

my life, There is an epitaph on three chil- For it raises my flowers and oovers dren in Townstal Churchyard. South my xvife. Devon, which is a sermon in itself,

The oftener it is read the more will

its beauty bc realized. It runs:

Bold Infidelity! turn pale and die,

Beneath this stone three infants‘ ashes lie;

Sayi are they lost. or saved

If death's by sin, they sin'd, because they're here!

If heaven's by works, in heaven they

can't appear! Reason, ah, how depraved

Reverse the Bible's sacrcd pages! the knots untied.

Thcy died, for Adam sinucdi livc. for Jesus diCd.

Another is evidently in memory of a scold: Here is my much-loved Celia laid, At rest from all her earthly labors; Glory to God, peace to the dead, And to the curs of all her neigh- bors. Arid how exrprcssive the next two lines: H ” snug in peace my wife doth lie, at rest and so am I.

a Panning Epitaphs. ma).

A‘ mentioned before, the village pulltor in years gone by made the m“ of his opportunities. I-Icre are a Mspecimcns of his hztudiivnrk.

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Here lies, returned to clay, Miss Arabella Young,

“lilo on Lhr: twenty; llfg‘ oi May. Begun to hold hcr tongue.

S, droilery: _ Mary Snell hers gone awgy_ Hurrah, my boys at the Parsons fall. H would H. hm. could but h" ‘ For if he'd lived he'd have buried us .1 ' N! (muldnt stay; ail‘ Heglhad sore legs and a baddish 1H8“ h“ m": lwdy M Mary Am“ f" Cough She rests on the bosum of Abra- Bufiher legs it were that carried her ham’ 2'. o“ Very jolly for Mary .\m,

Pfrom Dymcck, in Glouccstcrshire, Bu‘ m” s“ idly {or Abraham‘

comps the epitaph on two babies, which commences well but finishes in ‘gather bad taste:

Two sweeter babes you ne'er did see Than God gave Amiti gave-to wee; Bi? they were ifertaken with ague

' fits.

Add here they lie as dead as nits. flu.- story of the little girl who, whim walking through a graveyard wtfi her father, asked where all the s Pd people were buried, is well V wn. Perhaps the answer to the

The associations of the grave in most countries are the yew, the cy- press, and the pine. The yew 1s the most popular, and is famous through- out Europc. In Italy they are plant», ed in row, The yew tree is in factl to be found in most churchyardsh: and in the county of Somerset there; is scarcely one without this "guard- ian of the dead."

Cheerleas, unsocial plant that loves

Woman '3. Realm -:

.- Soiafartzii Persogal .

Dorothy Dix Letter Box

What Should be the Standards of the Girl of

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Today? When the Wife fihould Work, After Marriage. lrresistiblelYoung Man Who Would Escape Girls

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Answer:

The moral standards of the girls of may. Annie, are not different from wrist. they have been for wiml- less ages. The virtues do not change. They l" ll immutable as the everlasting mountain peaks. Purity Gentle-

- think this is a new world, with new conditions and new rulcs govcrnlng it just because you are new 1n 1t. That is where Y0" are in error. The world is very old and all the e-Xpflflllllfltl whim Y0" l" making for the first time havebeen tried out‘ over and over again by every successive" generation of younziwfil Alld- stmnlel? "mlllh- u"?! n" old conclusions onthe vital subjects have been reached. " Pficialli 350110

esda of the what is proper and improper for girls to do, and what line of conduct it is’ but!” on Tu y w“ one

best for thcm to follow in order to make the m0"- 0! mill‘ 11V"-

Of course. modern conditions have scrapped a lot of the old conventions, but the fundamental principles of conduct still remain the same that they have been for ages. Girls are no longer kept in leading strings and hanging to a chaperones skirts as they were 1n grandmothers time. Nor are they supposed to blush themselves to death over the mention of sex and to refer to the leg of a piano as a limb, as was the proper thing for a young girl to do in the Victorian era.

It ls not possible for the modern business girl to have what Ihackeray called "a sheep dog“ to guard her when she works in men's Oflicea. Nor does shc consider 1t ncccssary, for she is not under the hallucination under which ihc women of previous generations sccmed to labor, that every man they mot was pursuing them with purposes ivliich baacd them no good. Also

the modern uiri aiouid consider herself nasty-minded if she found anything‘

out oi the any in many of the things that. shocked her mother. Ncvcrlliclcss, when it comcs clown to ordering her own life, the girl of today iinds it bcsi to cling pretty close to the old feminine standards.

If she goes cu wild whocpee parties and comes liomc any old hour of the night, the neighbors are still watching from behind their blinds and keeping tab on her, and they tear her reputation to pieces, Just as they have always done that of wild girls. If she gets drunk, she is just as disgusting and as sure of ostracism by decent people as 1f it was 187i instead of 1931. And in spite of all that is said and written about women's right to their love life, the unmarried mother is stillan outcast, and the modern man, when it comes to marrying, passes by the girls who have been his playfellows and selects for a wife some girl whom he at least believes to be virtuous.

so you see, Annie, the standards for the girl of today are what they were yesterday. Purity and modesty and honor and honesty and sweetness and gentleness and helpfulness. These can't be improved upon.-

DORUHIY DIX.

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Dear Miss Dix—I am_a man of 28. In love with a girl of fine family and who is all that a man could ask for in a woman. We are anxious to marry, but the economic question raises a barrier. My father has trained me to feel that when a man marries he should put his wife 1n her own home and support her. This I cannot do at present, as my salary has been reduced on account of the general economic depression. My girl has a good paying job, not heavy work, as she has a technical education and makes as much money as I do or a little more. If we both continue to work a few years after marriage until we had saved a little, we could make a go of it after that, but I don't like to marry a woman who is forced as my wife to continue to work. Shall I explain how I feel to her and let her decide?

1N LOVE AND IN A FIX.

.._.._..._.. Answer: Certainly. ‘After all, the question is chieby up to the girl and she has a right to the deciding vote. Otherwise you do her a great injustice ba- cause you keep her in a state of uncertainty, not knowing what your in- tentions are nor why you keep putting off the marriage.

you and help you fight your battle to success than be kept waiting on the Joy and beauty of young love, nndlwatching all the enthusiasm slowly seep out of her romance until it. is like a spent!

balloon.

You are at the marrying time of life now and if you wait the years that it will take you to scrape together enough money to provide a. home in which to put your wife and to support her alone and unaided, you will not only have inst the years in which you might have been ‘happy to-l

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with her Job than for them to put man has made his pile. ......_.___ And, after all, isn't there a lot of hooey in the old-fashioned idea about a man not being willing for his wife to work after marriage? The men d!

the home, but they expected them to work inside of it. They didn't want them to keep on with a. job, but’ they wanted them to cook and scrub and wash and iron and do ten times the labor in the home that the modern girl does in an office.

The only thing was, it saved a man's facc "nzl lct I? ' “ ' , ;

him talk about sup-

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Style ‘Chats

i WITH ALML ABCIIII

I haven't a doubt in my shallow bean that Mr. Futurity, liqui- polse and even frhistle Ann would give up their track work in two shakes of a lamb's tail, if they thought for qne second there was the slightest chance of a little bockroad galloping with one of the adorable new linen Jodhpur habits and some beautiful darling in the saddle. The white linen waistcoat has long sleeves and is absurdly brief like a bellboyu. ‘rho lodhpiira are of black, brown, or checked linen, and the hat should be‘ lsglicm.

Another cuts summer stunt is to wear l. dark silk shirt with

to dwell Midst skulls and coffins epitaphs and wonns, Where light-heeled ghosts, and vis- ionary shades, ' Beneath the cold wan moon (50 fame "P0119. Embedded thick, perform their mys- tic rounds, No other merriment, dull tree, is l thine.

white or pastel linen brooches, and unless you hear too loud a neigh, try one of the new loosely-woven cotton tweed: for the coat.

Dear Miss Dix-Would you kindly give some tandards for the girls of

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If she is the right sort of girl, she would a million times rather marry IIICQII.lllkdlfldlfllzlOllblll-hlvclft

them u years and, for otocldn . I have always gotten

l they deserve to be.

Thlt fllll ms With Rudd,

Of blue skies and Pinata

And songs that the meadow b10038 m‘.

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and Princess Tammi-tau, of Jollfll. will arrive 1n Ottawa on Bltlirdly- and will be the Quests of the Oan|d~ tan Government for a few dayl- Whlle 1n town they will reside at the Chateau Laurier, and will be the guests of neu- meeilenciea the Gov-

and virtue. Honor and truth and loyalty-

ness and sweetness and helpfulness. They were the Qmlll-Glnffil "d u" 0mm“ °l code by which your mother and her mother and her B!" - °n “turd” "mm "l mother lived, and they are the code by which you J dinner. ' . .

must stand or fall today.

Mrs. Prowae, wife of Mayor ‘IZW-L.

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which were very greatly enjoyed by her numerous friends.

The oddfellows Natal Day cele-

nicest social gatherings of the sea- con. O O I

Mrs. Mathieson, wife of Chief Jul- tice Mathiuon entertained at her lovely home for the closing game of the Thursday nftemoon Bridge Club this week.

O O O

Miss Mary Macdonald and Miss Cecile Shannon are in Ottawa. the guests of the farmer's brother-in- law and sister Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Atwell.

O O O

Mrs. .l. A. S. Bayer has gone on a

visit to friends in Boston. - . o

Mr. and Mrs. .l. A. Bentley have as their welcome guest Mrs. Bent- ley's sister. Miss Emily l-lownrdof Springfield.

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The St. Dunstans Club of Boston held one of their monthly bridge parties last Saturday at the‘ home of Mrs. A. H. MacLellan, Kowitt Road. West Roxbury. About fiftry members and friends were» present. Mrs. win. Cox (Zita Dalton) carried ‘of! first‘ prize while the President of the Club Mr. P. A. Mlclntyre was a close second. Other prize winners 1n- cluded Mxa. Dalton, wife of the Lieut. Governor of P. E. Bland. Dr. J. C. V. Fisher, Mrs. Mabel Dalton, Mr. Kan- rleh, Mrs. Brent Mach-mils, m. J. B. Brown, Mrs. K. MacAulay, Dr. F. Mac- Fax-lane and Miss M. c. MlcPheu. Dr. RA. l-lennebery was 1n general charge. Refreshments were served after which Mr. Riley, soloist at, tho Mission Church, sang two very plots- ing numbe , accompanied by Mrs. (D12) Fisher. The Club is 1n its tenth yea: arld is enjoying one of its most

casful r . i O O O

Ildrs. James Murley has been spend-

NEIGHBORS TALK

“I am employed in a theatre audit is a problem to make ends meet, as help support m mother and

ve much to spend on clothes. To

the appearance of vanst to my-

ender wardrobe l change t o color of a dress or ltockiin s as soon as the things bocomo fade . I always use Diamond Dyes for the work-using dyes for dresses and as tints

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In the house the Queen will!“ I‘ Mayfair, the rooms are decorated as fol-

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yellow marble built lnm a recess under an arch. contains illuminated medicine cupboards.

O O O

Mrs. .1. Lelloy Holman returned on

She was the gusst o} Mrs. D. It Morrison. O O O

Halos are Just beginning to fulc in the hat vogue. The surest sign that their day is slipping 1s seen 1n

Algerian tilt down over one eye and leave only a triangle of forehead to be seen. Even these dashing affairs, however, do not cover even the ears alt all. O O O

Mr. and Mrs. George DeBlois have returned from a holiday visit to New

York. O O O

events of the week was a very de- lightful dinner party given in hon- our of one oi‘ Charlottctouars most popular and charming young ladies. Miss M. Josephine Blake. on the oc- casion of her birthday, at the Can- adian National Hotel last Saturday. Every item of the menu of eight courses was deliccusly cooked, and the‘ service was all that could be de- sired, both, from the point of viow of efficiency and ‘ ‘_ lneas. A f suite upstairs lent itself admirably to a party 0f this kind. After dinner the guests were entertained at bridge and prizes were p. ented to the lady and gentleman who obtained the highest scores. Not the lent at- tractive feature was a birthday cake a marvelous example of the Chef's m, which depicted on the top a scene of lilies and swans by a. wood- ed stream. O O O llflrs. H. B. Hillson was dinner hos- tess for the closing of’ the Reading Club on Monday at her beautiful home "The Bitches." O O O A Bridge-Dinner at the Canadian National Hotel Thur ’ , was chosen by the No-‘Ik-ump Bridge Club tn terminate their weekly‘ social gath- erings for this season and was very much enjoyed. O O O

Mrs. D. R. Morrison of Bummer- side, who has been spending the win- tar in Montreal 1s returning home. 0n her way to the Island Mrs. Mor- rison will visit her brother, Rev. Mr. Ross of Sussex, N. B.

‘ O O O TAKE TWO-SHAPES‘ ...

Mr. and, Mrs. George Buntain were Wl-Ol-tvwn guests at the wedding 1n Montreal, this week of Miss Muriel Kathleen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A .V. Hill, to Mr. George Hed- ley Gordon Kerr, of Montreal, son of Mr. Joseph Kerr, of Ohatham, 11.3.. Wlllvll twlr Place in Dominion- Douslu Church, the Rvev. Dr. A. Lloyd Smith officiating.

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Hon. J. E. Sinclair and Mrs. 81n-

such psrfoc results that our neigh- burs" talk about the great number of new thing I have. _ ' “I learned about Diamond Dg/es from our wardrobe mistress. be says she has tried all the d es on the market but none do aucli sp ended work and are so easy to ins as Dia-