After lasting about seven weeks the strike of bank clerks has come an end with the defeat of the strikers, though they do not retire entirely without the spoils of war. Some of the banks have raised wages {to the magnificent extent of 10: a month, and others have agreed sive " "heating indemnity," o coal allowance, amounting to as much as all round-—was emphatically Jected by the "banks, who have also destined to take all the strikers back. The militants among the black-coated workers thut find themselves out of a job jand the organization is not strong. Jenough to call another strike on behalf of these It is the old story of unskilled labour face to face with allied capital and economic necessities. The strike certainly had the sympathy of the public, but it was of litre use to, them.' In justice to the hanks, it must be admitted that they were considerably overstaffed, and that for years they have been keeping Jon men and women whom they did not really need, M. Viviaal the Orator The late M. Vivian, who will take his place in history a5 the man who happened t> be Prime Minister of France at the outbreak of the great war, was one of the. most brilliant orators in the French Pai admirable product of y ly too apt 9 think that the most difficult probe Jems can be solved by fire speeches varied from 200.
minute, a speed which speakers con keep up for any longs of time. Tu spite of thiy sapidity of utterance, ko never lost f his speech or found ved in a tangle of ideas, Hi characterized by att purity Vivian' has gone, seater is the Chamber Louis "Marin, whose style Almost as good. Tu the Senate, the spec record is held by Mr, Laou Perries, who om the Tada and whose ¢ resembles impetuous mountain torrent, Hiv appearance in the tribune Is dreaded the oficial stenographers, not 40 much on account 11 speed of utterance as of the form of his sentences, which are long and wolved—io long, in fact, that many, of them rever end.
And Hawke:'s Patter i Every Sur pine, the army; exh of new toys' and other small which is being leid this year Magic City, once a popular attraction park, is the scene of an amusing Jcompetition for hawkers, Members of this fraternity are present in arge numbers, selling all sorts of tides with any amount of amuying "patter," and the object is to discover the vendor who shows ths greatest amount of ingenuity ard effectiveness in disposing of wares, One is a most impressive individual, wearing gold-rimmed spectacles and a beard. Armed with heart, a liver and other organ made of cardboard, he delivers a miniature lecture on physiology and winds up by strongly recommending a tooth-powder, which {3 sure ito preserve the user from all sorts of bodily ailments. Another orator who generally has a crowd round him is a rubicund person in a chef's leap. He extols the virtues of an instrument for cutting up potatoes, "Just think a minute!" he says. "Suppose Madame has been out shopping in the morning and hay not been able to return home soon as she intended—the kind of thing that might happen to anyone, is it not? It is a quarter past 12, The dejeuner is not prepared.
monsieur will soon be home, probabi hungry. It would take too Tong to peel potatoes with an ordinary. knife, but take this one, and the potatoes are done in a few second. The interior economy of a home and ithe domestic peace of a worthy couple thus preserved"—and js0 on. Visitors are invited ty vote for the hawker whom they consider the cleverest, and he who receiver Jmost votes will be proclaimed "King Jot demonstrators."
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